Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Bacton Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP14 4QE
Bacton · Mid Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Stowmarket
- Ward
- Bacton
- Local authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley
- Postcode district
- IP14
- Postcode sector
- IP14 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP14 4QE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP14
- Postcode sector
- IP14 4
- Latitude
- 52.247980
- Longitude
- 1.026062
- British National Grid easting
- 606,668
- British National Grid northing
- 265,401
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Mid Suffolk · E07000203
- Electoral ward
- Bacton · E05012589
- Parish or community
- E04009188
- Westminster constituency
- Waveney Valley · E14001569
- Output area
- E00153202
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Suffolk 005C · E01030059
- Middle layer super output area
- Mid Suffolk 005 · E02006265
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 IP14
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Cotton Hall Cottages, Cotton, Stowmarket, IP14 4QE | 21 January 2005 | £148,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.2 km
Bacton Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.0 km
Old Newton Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.6 km
Mendlesham Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 2
- Public order 1
- Vehicle crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- IP14 4 residents
- 6,156
7 female, 7 male
Age bands in IP14 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.9%
894 residents
568 residents
1,244 residents
1,871 residents
1,769 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP14 4 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+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
MENDLESHAM MEDICAL GROUP
CHAPEL ROAD, MENDLESHAM, STOWMARKET, IP14 5SQ
ODS code D83019
3.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Blacksmiths Corner
BCT · Fords Green
- 0.7 miles
Blacksmiths Corner
BCT · Fords Green
- 0.7 miles
Canham's Farm Cottages
BCT · Cow Green
- 0.7 miles
Canham's Farm Cottages
BCT · Cow Green
- 1.0 miles
Church
BCT · Cotton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Suffolk 005C, 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
17,584 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
4 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.