Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 3 secondary schools. Culford School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP28 6LY
Risby · West Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bury St Edmunds
- Ward
- Risby
- Local authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk
- Postcode district
- IP28
- Postcode sector
- IP28 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP28 6LY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP28
- Postcode sector
- IP28 6
- Latitude
- 52.286698
- Longitude
- 0.672865
- British National Grid easting
- 582,403
- British National Grid northing
- 268,758
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- West Suffolk · E07000245
- Electoral ward
- Risby · E05012795
- Parish or community
- E04012717
- Westminster constituency
- West Suffolk · E14001578
- Output area
- E00153627
- Lower layer super output area
- West Suffolk 010D · E01030134
- Middle layer super output area
- West Suffolk 010 · E02006280
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 IP28
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| St Marys, Hengrave, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 6LY | 19 December 2019 | £485,000 |
| St Marys, Hengrave, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 6LY | 6 April 2006 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.8 km
Culford School
Other independent school
- 3.1 km
Howard Community Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 3.2 km
Abbey Gardens School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 2
- Other theft 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- IP28 6 residents
- 5,963
1 female, 2 male
Age bands in IP28 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.1%
758 residents
554 residents
1,213 residents
1,677 residents
1,639 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP28 6 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
VICTORIA SURGERY
VICTORIA STREET, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 3BB
ODS code D83040
5.0 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
- 0.1 miles
Hengrave Hall
BCT · Hengrave
- 0.2 miles
Hengrave Hall
BCT · Hengrave
- 1.0 miles
Church
BCT · Flempton
- 1.0 miles
Church
BCT · Flempton
- 1.1 miles
Cornwallis Close
BCT · West Stow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Suffolk 010D, 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
18,477 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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.
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
5 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.