Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Southwold Primary School is the nearest published school at 537 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP18 6HH
Southwold · East Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Southwold
- Ward
- Southwold
- Local authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal
- Postcode district
- IP18
- Postcode sector
- IP18 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP18 6HH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 February 2003
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP18
- Postcode sector
- IP18 6
- Latitude
- 52.323594
- Longitude
- 1.677470
- British National Grid easting
- 650,695
- British National Grid northing
- 275,865
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- East Suffolk · E07000244
- Electoral ward
- Southwold · E05012758
- Parish or community
- E04009529
- Westminster constituency
- Suffolk Coastal · E14001530
- Output area
- E00154464
- Lower layer super output area
- East Suffolk 014C · E01035154
- Middle layer super output area
- East Suffolk 014 · E02006315
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 IP18
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Ferry Cottage, Gardner Road, Southwold, IP18 6HH | 13 March 2012 | £357,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 537 m
Southwold Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.8 km
Reydon Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 2.0 km
Saint Felix 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 30
- Anti social behaviour 16
- Criminal damage and arson 15
- Other theft 10
- Public order 10
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP18 6 residents
- 3,840
Age bands in IP18 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 13.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 42%
434 residents
265 residents
535 residents
995 residents
1,612 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 straight-line
SOLE BAY H/C
TEAL CLOSE, REYDON, SOUTHWOLD, IP18 6GY
ODS code D83022
1.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Gardner Road
BCT · Southwold
- 0.1 miles
Gardner Road
BCT · Southwold
- 0.1 miles
Red Lion
BCT · Southwold
- 0.1 miles
Red Lion
BCT · Southwold
- 0.2 miles
Market Place
BCT · Southwold
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Suffolk 014C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,420 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
101 published events cover 12 months, averaging 8.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 30 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.