RM16 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

698 of the district's 1,243 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 51.49306, 0.34114, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in RM16

Companies House lists 2,834 companies with a registered office in RM16; none of them at an address shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for RM16

• Thurrock
• Eastern
• Grays
• Chadwell St Mary
• South Stifford
• Chafford Hundred
• Orsett
• Southfields
• North Stifford
• Orsett Heath
• Baker Street
• Biggin

Roads filed under RM16

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Advice Avenue
• Albert Close
• Alderton Road
• Alexandra Close
• Almond Close
• Aluric Close
• Andrea Avenue
• Annabell Avenue
• Anne Heart Close
• Antelope Avenue
• Archates Avenue
• Ark Avenue
• Armada Court
• Arterial Road North Stifford
• Arterial Road West Thurrock
• Ashby Close
• Ashley Gardens
• Atherton Gardens
• Back Lane
• Badgers Mount
• Baker Street
• Bark Burr Road
• Barmoor Mews
• Barnmead Meadows
• Barry Close
• Beaufort Close
• Beverley Close
• Biggin Lane
• Birchfield
• Blackshots Lane
• Blackthorn Road
• Bloomfield Walk
• Bodell Close
• Boleyn Close
• Bonham Drive
• Bonner Walk
• Bowerman Road
• Bradshaw Road
• Brandon Close
• Brentwood Road
• Bristowe Drive
• Broadview Avenue
• Brockett Road
• Brookman's Avenue
• Bull Close
• Burghley Road
• Buxton Road
• Calshot Avenue
• Cambridge Gardens
• Camden Close
• Camden Road
• Caravel Close
• Cardinal Road
• Carew Close
• Carlton Road
• Cassell Close
• Catalina Avenue
• Catharine Close
• Cecil Avenue
• Cedar Road

Check an address in RM16

Check an address in RM16

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=RM16" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about RM16

What does an RM16 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the RM16 district of the RM (Romford) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Grays. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 698 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest RM16

• RM171.7 km
• RM183.8 km
• RM204.2 km
• RM154.8 km
• DA106.4 km
• DA116.5 km
• DA96.7 km
• RM196.8 km
• SS177.4 km
• DA127.9 km
• RM148.8 km
• DA210.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids