Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Woodbridge Primary School is the nearest published school at 315 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP12 1SP
Melton · East Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Melton
- Local authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal
- Postcode district
- IP12
- Postcode sector
- IP12 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP12 1SP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 July 2001
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP12
- Postcode sector
- IP12 1
- Latitude
- 52.100835
- Longitude
- 1.320529
- British National Grid easting
- 627,514
- British National Grid northing
- 249,922
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- East Suffolk · E07000244
- Electoral ward
- Melton · E05015550
- Parish or community
- E04013242
- Westminster constituency
- Suffolk Coastal · E14001530
- Output area
- E00153963
- Lower layer super output area
- East Suffolk 020C · E01030195
- Middle layer super output area
- East Suffolk 020 · E02006291
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 IP12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 315 m
Woodbridge Primary School
Community school
- 782 m
Melton Primary School
Community school
- 848 m
Woodbridge School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 407
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 204
- Criminal damage and arson 46
- Other theft 31
- Anti social behaviour 30
- Public order 28
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP12 1 residents
- 7,245
Age bands in IP12 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.9%
967 residents
669 residents
1,416 residents
2,120 residents
2,205 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
LITTLE ST JOHN STREET SURGERY
7 LITTLE ST. JOHNS STREET, WOODBRIDGE, IP12 1EE
ODS code D83049
759 m
FRAMFIELD HOUSE SURGERY
IPSWICH ROAD, WOODBRIDGE, IP12 4FD
ODS code D83057
1.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Jenners Close
BCT · Melton
- 0.2 miles
Jenners Close
BCT · Melton
- 0.3 miles
Warwick Avenue
BCT · Woodbridge
- 0.3 miles
Warwick Avenue
BCT · Woodbridge
- 0.3 miles
Grant Rise
BCT · Woodbridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Suffolk 020C, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,848 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
407 published events cover 12 months, averaging 33.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 204 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.