Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Melton Primary School is the nearest published school at 938 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP12 2PB
Melton · East Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Woodbridge
- Ward
- Melton
- Local authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal
- Postcode district
- IP12
- Postcode sector
- IP12 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP12 2PB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP12
- Postcode sector
- IP12 2
- Latitude
- 52.105444
- Longitude
- 1.343906
- British National Grid easting
- 629,091
- British National Grid northing
- 250,508
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
- E00153962
- Lower layer super output area
- East Suffolk 020B · E01030194
- 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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Meadowside, Brick Kiln Lane, Melton, Woodbridge, IP12 2PB | 3 March 2005 | £110,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 938 m
Melton Primary School
Community school
- 1.8 km
Woodbridge Primary School
Community school
- 2.5 km
Woodbridge School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 101
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 47
- Criminal damage and arson 12
- Other theft 11
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Public order 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 11
- 5 female, 6 male
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- IP12 2 residents
- 5,618
Age bands in IP12 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- 976 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- 521 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.1%
- 1,195 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- 1,661 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 23%
- 1,298 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP12 2 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+
- 44.4%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 44.4%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 44.4%
- Gigabit-capable
- 44.4%
- 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
LITTLE ST JOHN STREET SURGERY
7 LITTLE ST. JOHNS STREET, WOODBRIDGE, IP12 1EE
ODS code D83049
2.1 km
FRAMFIELD HOUSE SURGERY
IPSWICH ROAD, WOODBRIDGE, IP12 4FD
ODS code D83057
3.0 km
Nearby transport
- 404 m
Entrance
RSE · Melton
- 404 m
Melton (Suffolk) Rail Station
RLY · Melton
- 436 m
Railway Station
BCT · Melton
- 493 m
Railway Station
BCT · Melton
- 498 m
Turning Circle
BCT · Melton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Suffolk 020B, 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
18,202 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 4
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
Recorded crime
101 published events cover 12 months, averaging 8 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 47 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.