Business rates in Barking and Dagenham

1,602 retail, hospitality and leisure premises across 123 streets, each checked against the 2026 rating list. Pick your street below.

London›Barking and Dagenham
Premises assessed
1,602
Median rateable value
£14,250
Streets covered
123

In Barking and Dagenham, 329 of 1,602 shops, cafés, restaurants and leisure premises (20.5%) saw their rateable value rise by 25% or more at the April 2026 revaluation, according to our analysis of the 2026 rating list (data as of August 2026).

565 (35.3%) have a rateable value of £12,000 or less, the band where small business rate relief can take the bill to nil, on rateable value alone.

How much are business rates in Barking and Dagenham?

A typical Barking and Dagenham shop or restaurant on the 2026 list has a rateable value of £14,250. At the 2026/27 small retail, hospitality and leisure multiplier of 38.2p that is about £5,444 a year before any relief. Small business rate relief, transitional relief and supporting small business relief can reduce it, in some cases to nil. What is actually on a bill only the bill shows.

How many shops in Barking and Dagenham pay no business rates?

565 of the 1,596 retail, hospitality and leisure premises in Barking and Dagenham (35.4%) have a 2026 rateable value of £12,000 or below. That is the band where small business rate relief can take the bill to nil, for an occupier of one property. A further 18.2% sit in the tapered band. The bill shows whether the relief has been claimed.

How much did rateable values change in Barking and Dagenham at the 2026 revaluation?

The typical change against the 2023 list is +18.4%. 20.6% of premises rose by 25% or more and 2.4% fell. 238 premises moved from £12,000 or below to above it, which is what supporting small business relief 2026 is for.

Which reliefs should a Barking and Dagenham shop or café check in 2026/27?

Four. Small business rate relief, which has to be claimed. The retail, hospitality and leisure multiplier, which depends on how the council has coded the property. Transitional relief and supporting small business relief, which cap the rise after the revaluation and should appear automatically. And for the 22 pubs in Barking and Dagenham, the 15% pubs and live music venues relief. Send the address and we tell you which apply, free.

WHAT THE PUBLIC RECORD SHOWS FOR BARKING AND DAGENHAM
Premises typeCountShare
Retail 1,465 91.4%
Hospitality 103 6.4%
Leisure 34 2.1%

Flags across Barking and Dagenham

FlagPremisesShare
Rateable value inside the full small business relief band 565 35.3%
Rateable value inside the tapered band 275 17.2%
Rate per m² above the street median for comparable use 95 5.9%
Valuation rose 25% or more at the 2026 revaluation 329 20.5%
Valuation fell 25% or more at the 2026 revaluation 4 0.2%
Nothing flagged from public data. Needs the bill 562 35.1%

A flag records where a premises sits in the public record. It is not a finding that a bill is wrong. The bill itself shows which reliefs and which multiplier were applied. Source: 2026 rating list, data as of August 2026.

Rateable values in Barking and Dagenham

The spread of rateable values across Barking and Dagenham, by type of premises. If yours sits well outside the range for its type, that is worth understanding. On its own it is not evidence of an error.

Premises typePremises Lower quartileMedian Upper quartile
All retail, hospitality and leisure 1,596 £10,750 £14,250 £21,750
Retail 1,460 £10,500 £14,000 £20,500
Hospitality 102 £12,000 £21,000 £55,750
Leisure 34 £20,812 £38,750 £147,500

Value per square metre in Barking and Dagenham

Rateable values are largely built from a rate per square metre applied to the trading area. That rate is what decides your valuation. It is published only in the detailed valuations, premises by premises. The summary below is ours.

Premises typeWith published area Lower quartileMedian Upper quartile
All retail, hospitality and leisure 1,543 £295 £360 £400
Retail 1,450 £295 £360 £400
Hospitality 70 £170 £330 £422
Leisure 23 £45 £50 £106

Per square metre of floor area (NIA), from the published detailed valuations. Premises without a published area are not counted.

The most valuable retail streets in Barking and Dagenham

Streets ranked by the median value per square metre of their retail, hospitality and leisure premises. Only streets with at least five premises with a published area are ranked. 51 of 123 qualify.

#Street Premises Median £/m² Median RV
1 East Street IG11 59 £590 £33,250
2 Station Parade IG11 41 £550 £30,250
3 Heathway RM9 42 £495 £20,000
4 Longbridge Road RM8 29 £430 £15,250
5 Green Lane RM8 121 £400 £16,500
6 Longbridge Road IG11 99 £400 £18,375
7 North Street IG11 7 £400 £12,750
8 Parsloes Avenue RM9 7 £390 £10,500
9 Fanshawe Avenue IG11 8 £380 £10,250
10 Movers Lane IG11 7 £380 £9,800
11 Upney Lane IG11 5 £380 £10,500
12 Heathway RM10 63 £375 £21,625
13 Becontree Avenue RM8 87 £370 £12,750
14 Church Street RM10 19 £370 £11,750
15 Dagenham Road RM10 10 £370 £12,750
16 Gale Street RM9 25 £370 £12,000
17 Oxlow Lane RM10 43 £370 £13,875
18 Ripple Road RM9 10 £370 £10,125
19 High Road RM6 114 £360 £16,000
20 Wood Lane RM8 36 £360 £13,125
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Questions this data tends to raise

One flat fee: 15% of the savings we secure, confirmed in writing by the council. Nothing saved, nothing to pay.

If there's nothing to save, we say so.