Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Forest Academy is the nearest published school at 165 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP27 0RY
Brandon Central · West Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Brandon Central
- Local authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk
- Postcode district
- IP27
- Postcode sector
- IP27 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP27 0RY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1997
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP27
- Postcode sector
- IP27 0
- Latitude
- 52.447636
- Longitude
- 0.621668
- British National Grid easting
- 578,263
- British National Grid northing
- 286,527
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- West Suffolk · E07000245
- Electoral ward
- Brandon Central · E05012767
- Parish or community
- E04012407
- Westminster constituency
- West Suffolk · E14001578
- Output area
- E00152511
- Lower layer super output area
- West Suffolk 002B · E01029927
- Middle layer super output area
- West Suffolk 002 · E02006238
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 IP27
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 165 m
Forest Academy
Academy converter
- 576 m
Glade Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.5 km
Breckland School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 562
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 273
- Criminal damage and arson 51
- Other theft 41
- Public order 39
- Anti social behaviour 29
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP27 0 residents
- 11,333
Age bands in IP27 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.8%
1,752 residents
1,046 residents
2,771 residents
2,940 residents
2,806 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
BRANDON MEDICAL PRACTICE
ELBOURNE SURGERY, 31 HIGH STREET, BRANDON, IP27 0AQ
ODS code Y00774
149 m
FOREST SURGERY
BURY ROAD, BRANDON, IP27 0BU
ODS code D83062
252 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Old Forge Court
BCT · Brandon
- 0.0 miles
Old Forge Court
BCT · Brandon
- 0.1 miles
Ladram House
BCT · Brandon
- 0.1 miles
Ladram House
BCT · Brandon
- 0.1 miles
Aldi
BCT · Brandon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Suffolk 002B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,606 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
562 published events cover 12 months, averaging 46.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 273 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.