Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 0 secondary schools. Sandlings Primary School is the nearest published school at 228 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP12 3TW
Deben · East Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Deben
- Local authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal
- Postcode district
- IP12
- Postcode sector
- IP12 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP12 3TW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- 1 July 2013
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP12
- Postcode sector
- IP12 3
- Latitude
- 52.080835
- Longitude
- 1.385189
- British National Grid easting
- 632,045
- British National Grid northing
- 247,903
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- East Suffolk · E07000244
- Electoral ward
- Deben · E05012740
- Parish or community
- E04012221
- Westminster constituency
- Suffolk Coastal · E14001530
- Output area
- E00154080
- Lower layer super output area
- East Suffolk 023B · E01033443
- Middle layer super output area
- East Suffolk 023 · E02006293
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
- 5
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 0
- 228 m
Sandlings Primary School
Community school
- 3.8 km
Eyke Church of England Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 4.6 km
Melton Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 38
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 24
- Other crime 4
- Other theft 4
- Vehicle crime 2
- Burglary 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP12 3 residents
- 5,054
Age bands in IP12 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.5%
648 residents
569 residents
1,267 residents
1,428 residents
1,135 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
1
within 5 km
LITTLE ST JOHN STREET SURGERY
7 LITTLE ST. JOHNS STREET, WOODBRIDGE, IP12 1EE
ODS code D83049
4.7 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Turning Point
BCT · Sutton Heath Estate
- 1.0 miles
Picnic Site
BCT · Hollesley
- 1.0 miles
Picnic Site
BCT · Hollesley
- 1.3 miles
Sutton Hall Farm
BCT · Sutton
- 1.3 miles
Sutton Hall Farm
BCT · Sutton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Suffolk 023B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,321 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
38 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 24 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.