Property market
The five-year median is £970,482 from 1 recorded sale in CO8 5AB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Babergh is £328,612 in June 2026, up 1.9% year on year.
CO8 5AB
Bures St Mary & Nayland · Babergh · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bures
- Local authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk
- Postcode district
- CO8
- Postcode sector
- CO8 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CO8 5AB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CO
- Postcode district
- CO8
- Postcode sector
- CO8 5
- Latitude
- 51.972243
- Longitude
- 0.775242
- British National Grid easting
- 590,722
- British National Grid northing
- 234,055
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Babergh · E07000200
- Electoral ward
- Bures St Mary & Nayland · E05012569
- Parish or community
- E04009077
- Westminster constituency
- South Suffolk · E14001494
- Output area
- E00152261
- 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 CO8
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Chambers Bus Garage, Church Square, Bures, CO8 5AB | 9 March 2026 | £970,482 |
| Chambers Bus Garage, Church Square, Bures, CO8 5AB | 3 June 2021 | £684,000 |
| Maynscroft, Church Square, Bures, CO8 5AB | 25 June 2010 | £398,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 206 m
Bures Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.2 km
The Ryes College
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 84
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 31
- Criminal damage and arson 12
- Vehicle crime 9
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Public order 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- CO8 5 residents
- 2,406
3 female, 3 male
Age bands in CO8 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.1%
387 residents
220 residents
449 residents
725 residents
661 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CO8 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Church
BCT · Bures
- 0.0 miles
Church
BCT · Bures
- 0.1 miles
Eight Bells
BCT · Bures
- 0.1 miles
Eight Bells
BCT · Bures
- 0.2 miles
Tawneys Ride
BCT · Bures
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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Bures Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School is the nearest published school at 206 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
84 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 31 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.