Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Ryes College is the nearest published school at 2.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CO6 5LA
Assington · Babergh · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Assington
- Local authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk
- Postcode district
- CO6
- Postcode sector
- CO6 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO6 5LA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO6
- Postcode sector
- CO6 5
- Latitude
- 52.029465
- Longitude
- 0.814403
- British National Grid easting
- 593,165
- British National Grid northing
- 240,521
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Babergh · E07000200
- Electoral ward
- Assington · E05012565
- Parish or community
- E04009115
- Westminster constituency
- South Suffolk · E14001494
- Output area
- E00152264
- Lower layer super output area
- Babergh 006A · E01029880
- Middle layer super output area
- Babergh 006 · E02006232
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore CO6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 3.1 km
The Ryes College
Other independent special school
- 3.2 km
Boxford Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.9 km
Great Waldingfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 12
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Vehicle crime 2
- Burglary 1
- Other theft 1
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CO6 5 residents
- 700
Age bands in CO6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 34.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.1%
112 residents
79 residents
141 residents
296 residents
233 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
SIAM SURGERY
SUDBURY COMMUNITY HC, CHURCH FIELD ROAD, SUDBURY, CO10 2DZ
ODS code D83075
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Airey Close
BCT · Newton
- 0.6 miles
Airey Close
BCT · Newton
- 0.8 miles
Links View
BCT · Newton Green
- 0.9 miles
Rectory Road
BCT · Newton Green
- 1.0 miles
Saracens Head
BCT · Newton Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Babergh 006A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,766 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
12 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.