Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Great Heath Academy is the nearest published school at 2.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP27 9BP
Lakenheath · West Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lakenheath
- Local authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk
- Postcode district
- IP27
- Postcode sector
- IP27 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP27 9BP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP27
- Postcode sector
- IP27 9
- Latitude
- 52.379775
- Longitude
- 0.565290
- British National Grid easting
- 574,700
- British National Grid northing
- 278,843
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- West Suffolk · E07000245
- Electoral ward
- Lakenheath · E05012784
- Parish or community
- E04009145
- Westminster constituency
- West Suffolk · E14001578
- Output area
- E00183322
- Lower layer super output area
- West Suffolk 003E · E01034564
- Middle layer super output area
- West Suffolk 003 · E02006240
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
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 4.6 km
Great Heath Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 4.9 km
Lakenheath Community Primary School
Community school
- 5.0 km
Mildenhall College Academy
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Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- IP27 9 residents
- 9,178
2 female, 4 male
Age bands in IP27 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 18.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 16.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 13%
1,923 residents
1,666 residents
2,873 residents
1,523 residents
1,195 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP27 9 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+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Gigabit-capable
- 50%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 50%
- 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
LAKENHEATH SURGERY
135 HIGH STREET, LAKENHEATH, BRANDON, IP27 9EP
ODS code D83045
4.6 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 1.1 miles
(Islip) Primark Warehouse
BCT · Islip
- 1.3 miles
The Street
BCT · Eriswell
- 1.3 miles
The Street
BCT · Eriswell
- 1.6 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Eriswell
- 1.6 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Eriswell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Suffolk 003E, 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
17,735 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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.