Creekmouth has a wide range of businesses from small local manufacturers to major multi-national companies.

[7] Subsequently, the Barking Creek tidal barrier was constructed in the early 1980s as part of the wider flood defences of London.

The regeneration project, costing £290,000 was started in 2005 and has seen the Environment Agency work in partnership with local charity the Creekmouth Preservation Society to transform disused land at the Barking Barrier into a green space.

Billy Bragg, poet and musician, originally from nearby Barking, helped local children from Thames View Junior School plant over 500 wild flower bulbs at the "Creekmouth Open Space" at the Barking Barrier on 28 November 2007.

[9] Creekmouth is served by the East London Transit bus service EL3, which runs between Little Heath and Barking Riverside and the East London Transit routes EL1 and EL2 serve nearby Thames View, to the north of Creekmouth with routes to Barking, Ilford, Barking Riverside and Dagenham Dock A Creekmouth DLR station was proposed on the Dagenham Dock extension of the Docklands Light Railway, however this was cancelled in 2008.