Schools
52 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 6 secondary schools. Westbourne Academy is the nearest published school at 183 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP1 5HY
Whitehouse · Ipswich · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Whitehouse
- Local authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
- Postcode district
- IP1
- Postcode sector
- IP1 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP1 5HY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP1
- Postcode sector
- IP1 5
- Latitude
- 52.072456
- Longitude
- 1.120961
- British National Grid easting
- 613,985
- British National Grid northing
- 246,160
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Ipswich · E07000202
- Electoral ward
- Whitehouse · E05007131
- Parish or community
- E43000134
- Westminster constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich · E14001156
- Output area
- E00153036
- Lower layer super output area
- Ipswich 003C · E01030029
- Middle layer super output area
- Ipswich 003 · E02006247
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
- 52
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 6
- 183 m
Westbourne Academy
Academy converter
- 261 m
Whitehouse Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 885 m
Highfield Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,414
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 883
- Shoplifting 606
- Criminal damage and arson 167
- Other theft 147
- Vehicle crime 139
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP1 5 residents
- 9,517
Age bands in IP1 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.4%
1,963 residents
1,074 residents
2,916 residents
2,348 residents
1,400 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
CARDINAL MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 DEBEN ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 5EN
ODS code D83050
694 m
IVRY STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 IVRY STREET, IPSWICH, IP1 3QW
ODS code D83024
2.1 km
BURLINGTON PRIMARY CARE
12-14 BURLINGTON ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 2EU
ODS code D83008
2.2 km
BARRACK LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 BARRACK LANE, IPSWICH, IP1 3NQ
ODS code D83059
2.2 km
HAWTHORN DRIVE SURGERY
206 HAWTHORN DRIVE, IPSWICH, IP2 0QQ
ODS code D83056
2.9 km
DR SOLWAY AND DR ROY PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET HEALTH CTR, ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83073
3.3 km
ORCHARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83074
3.3 km
ESSEX UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP NHS TRUST
70-74 ST. HELENS STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2LA
ODS code Y06499
3.4 km
THE DERBY ROAD PRACTICE
52 DERBY ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 8DN
ODS code D83051
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Galway Avenue
BCT · Westbourne
- 0.0 miles
Galway Avenue
BCT · Westbourne
- 0.1 miles
Brockley Crescent
BCT · Westbourne
- 0.1 miles
Agate Close
BCT · Whitehouse
- 0.1 miles
Bramford Lane
BCT · Whitehouse
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Ipswich 003C, 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
5,087 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
2,414 published events cover 12 months, averaging 201.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 883 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.