Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Hartismere School is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP23 8AU
Palgrave · Mid Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Palgrave
- Local authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley
- Postcode district
- IP23
- Postcode sector
- IP23 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP23 8AU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP23
- Postcode sector
- IP23 8
- Latitude
- 52.344268
- Longitude
- 1.127084
- British National Grid easting
- 613,100
- British National Grid northing
- 276,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Mid Suffolk · E07000203
- Electoral ward
- Palgrave · E05012606
- Parish or community
- E04009264
- Westminster constituency
- Waveney Valley · E14001569
- Output area
- E00153237
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Suffolk 001C · E01030064
- Middle layer super output area
- Mid Suffolk 001 · E02006261
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 IP23
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.4 km
Hartismere School
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- 2.6 km
Palgrave Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.1 km
St Peter and St Paul Church of England Primary School, Eye
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 27
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 12
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Drugs 2
- Other crime 2
- Other theft 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP23 8 residents
- 3,147
Age bands in IP23 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.6%
483 residents
318 residents
548 residents
1,116 residents
940 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
EYE HEALTH CENTRE
CASTLETON WAY, EYE, IP23 7DD
ODS code D83043
2.6 km
LAWNS PRACTICE
MOUNT STREET, DISS, IP22 4WG
ODS code D82022
4.0 km
PARISH FIELDS PRACTICE
MOUNT STREET, DISS, IP22 4WG
ODS code D82031
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Oaksmere
BCT · Brome
- 0.3 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Brome
- 0.3 miles
Oaksmere
BCT · Brome
- 0.3 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Brome
- 0.3 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Brome
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Suffolk 001C, 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
21,943 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
27 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 12 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.