Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Summerhill School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP16 4TF
Aldeburgh & Leiston · East Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Leiston
- Ward
- Aldeburgh & Leiston
- Local authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal
- Postcode district
- IP16
- Postcode sector
- IP16 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP16 4TF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP16
- Postcode sector
- IP16 4
- Latitude
- 52.223646
- Longitude
- 1.550198
- British National Grid easting
- 642,570
- British National Grid northing
- 264,320
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- East Suffolk · E07000244
- Electoral ward
- Aldeburgh & Leiston · E05015548
- Parish or community
- E04009463
- Westminster constituency
- Suffolk Coastal · E14001530
- Output area
- E00154059
- Lower layer super output area
- East Suffolk 018B · E01030208
- Middle layer super output area
- East Suffolk 018 · E02006289
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 IP16
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Harrow Farm House, Harrow Lane, Theberton, Leiston, IP16 4TF | 21 December 2007 | £281,000 |
| Rose Cottage, Harrow Lane, Leiston, IP16 4TF | 26 August 1998 | £65,000 |
| Hill Farm Cottage, 2, Harrow Lane, Theberton, Leiston, IP16 4TF | 18 August 1997 | £95,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.1 km
Summerhill School
Other independent school
- 2.7 km
Compass Community School Aylward Park
Other independent special school
- 3.1 km
Leiston Primary School
Academy converter
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
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 9
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- IP16 4 residents
- 6,830
4 female, 5 male
Age bands in IP16 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.3%
971 residents
640 residents
1,395 residents
1,880 residents
1,931 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP16 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 40%
- 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
2
within 5 km
LEISTON SURGERY
MAIN STREET, LEISTON, IP16 4ES
ODS code D83028
2.5 km
SAXMUNDHAM HEALTH CENTRE
SAXMUNDHAM HEALTH GROUP, LAMBSALE MEADOW NORTH ENTRANCE, SAXMUNDHAM, IP17 1DY
ODS code D83053
4.0 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Clay Hills
BCT · Leiston
- 0.8 miles
Clay Hills
BCT · Leiston
- 1.1 miles
Hodgson Avenue
BCT · Leiston
- 1.1 miles
Hodgson Avenue
BCT · Leiston
- 1.2 miles
Doughty Wylie Crescent
BCT · Theberton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Suffolk 018B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,486 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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.