Schools
62 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 8 secondary schools. Ranelagh Primary School is the nearest published school at 314 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP1 2DS
Gipping · Ipswich · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP1 2DS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2009
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP1
- Postcode sector
- IP1 2
- Latitude
- 52.056704
- Longitude
- 1.136321
- British National Grid easting
- 615,113
- British National Grid northing
- 244,454
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Ipswich · E07000202
- Electoral ward
- Gipping · E05007122
- Parish or community
- E43000134
- Westminster constituency
- Ipswich · E14001302
- Output area
- E00152814
- Lower layer super output area
- Ipswich 010E · E01029988
- Middle layer super output area
- Ipswich 010 · E02006254
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 IP1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 62
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 8
- 314 m
Ranelagh Primary School
Community school
- 525 m
Handford Hall Primary School
Academy converter
- 576 m
Westbridge Academy
Academy alternative provision converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,983
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,275
- Shoplifting 1,213
- Criminal damage and arson 437
- Public order 415
- Other theft 373
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP1 2 residents
- 5,707
Age bands in IP1 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 35.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.5%
1,176 residents
793 residents
2,240 residents
1,444 residents
732 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
BURLINGTON PRIMARY CARE
12-14 BURLINGTON ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 2EU
ODS code D83008
605 m
BARRACK LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 BARRACK LANE, IPSWICH, IP1 3NQ
ODS code D83059
801 m
IVRY STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 IVRY STREET, IPSWICH, IP1 3QW
ODS code D83024
1.2 km
HAWTHORN DRIVE SURGERY
206 HAWTHORN DRIVE, IPSWICH, IP2 0QQ
ODS code D83056
1.5 km
CARDINAL MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 DEBEN ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 5EN
ODS code D83050
1.7 km
DR SOLWAY AND DR ROY PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET HEALTH CTR, ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83073
1.8 km
ORCHARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83074
1.8 km
ESSEX UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP NHS TRUST
70-74 ST. HELENS STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2LA
ODS code Y06499
1.9 km
THE DERBY ROAD PRACTICE
52 DERBY ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 8DN
ODS code D83051
3.2 km
FELIXSTOWE ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
235 FELIXSTOWE ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 9BN
ODS code D83004
3.5 km
TWO RIVERS MEDICAL CENTRE
30 WOODBRIDGE ROAD EAST, IPSWICH, IP4 5PB
ODS code D83046
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Suffolk Retail Park
BCT · Ipswich
- 0.1 miles
Suffolk Retail Park
BCT · Ipswich
- 0.1 miles
McDonald's
BCT · Ipswich
- 0.2 miles
Bingo Hall
BCT · Ipswich
- 0.2 miles
Bingo Hall
BCT · Ipswich
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Ipswich 010E, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,267 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
5,983 published events cover 12 months, averaging 498.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,275 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.