What does an RM2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the RM2 district of the RM (Romford) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is London. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 268 live postcodes.

RM2 postcode district

RM2, in the RM (Romford) postcode area, has 268 live and 143 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 106 roads under it.

postcode area	RM (Romford)
live postcodes	268
terminated postcodes	143
sectors	2
roads listed	106
companies registered	1,195
centroid	51.58430, 0.20341
directory release	2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

268 of the district's 411 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 51.58430, 0.20341, which locates the district, not a building.

sector	live	terminated
RM2 5	140	78
RM2 6	128	65

Companies registered in RM2

Companies House lists 1,195 companies with a registered office in RM2; 263 of them at addresses 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 RM2

Havering
Greater London
London
Romford

Roads filed under RM2

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.

Academy Fields Road
Alpen Close
Amery Gardens
Annas Gardens
Balgores Crescent
Balgores Lane
Balgores Square
Balmoral Road
Barnfield Walk
Beaumont Close
Belgrave Avenue
Brentwood Road
Broadway
Brook Close
Brook Road
Cambridge Avenue
Carlton Road
Castellan Avenue
Catherine Road
Chalforde Gardens
Clive Road
Clunas Gardens
Compton Avenue
Cranbrook Drive
Crossways
Dassia Close
Durham Avenue
Eastern Avenue East
Edward Close
Elm Walk
Elvet Avenue
Eugene Close
Evelyn Sharp Close
Eyre Close
Fairholme Avenue
Faith Close
Farnes Drive
Ferguson Avenue
Ferguson Court
Gidea Avenue
Gidea Close
Gillian Crescent
Glenwood Drive
Hall Road
Hamilton Road
Harcourt Mews
Hare Hall Lane
Hastings Road
Heath Close
Heath Drive
Heath Park Road
Heaton Grange Road
Hockley Drive
Hopkins Close
James Close
Kidman Close
Lawrence Road
Links Avenue
Lodge Avenue
Lytton Road

all 106 roads

Main Road
Margaret Close
Margaret Road
Mead Close
Meadway
Millbrook Gardens
Montrose Avenue
Mulberry Close
Netherpark Drive
North Drive
Oxford Close
Oxley Close
Park Boulevard
Parkway
Pemberton Avenue
Pinecroft
Redfern Gardens
Reed Pond Walk
Repton Avenue
Repton Drive
Repton Gardens
Risebridge Road
Roslyn Gardens
Royle Close
Salisbury Road
Scholars Way
Severn Avenue
South Drive
Squirrel's Heath Avenue
Stanley Avenue
Stanley Close
Station Road
Station Square
St Ivians Drive
Sycamore Grove
The Ridgeway
Thomas Drive
Tudor Avenue
Tudor Drive
Tudor Gardens
Upper Brentwood Road
Wallenger Avenue
Warwick Gardens
Western Avenue
Witham Road
Woodfield Drive

Check an address in RM2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=RM2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about RM2

What does an RM2 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the RM2 district of the RM (Romford) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is London. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 268 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 RM2

RM11.4 km
RM111.8 km
RM32.4 km
RM72.6 km
RM53.3 km
RM123.5 km
RM65.2 km
RM145.3 km
RM105.4 km
RM85.9 km
RM136.6 km
RM96.8 km
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