Property market
The five-year median is £325,000 from 17 recorded sales in IP28 8FY. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for West Suffolk is £296,879 in June 2026, up 1.6% year on year.
IP28 8FY
Iceni · West Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bury St Edmunds
- Ward
- Iceni
- Local authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk
- Postcode district
- IP28
- Postcode sector
- IP28 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP28 8FY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2007
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP28
- Postcode sector
- IP28 8
- Latitude
- 52.309621
- Longitude
- 0.499202
- British National Grid easting
- 570,472
- British National Grid northing
- 270,884
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- West Suffolk · E07000245
- Electoral ward
- Iceni · E05015577
- Parish or community
- E04013224
- Westminster constituency
- West Suffolk · E14001578
- Output area
- E00173932
- Lower layer super output area
- West Suffolk 007D · E01033454
- Middle layer super output area
- West Suffolk 007 · E02006242
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
92 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Acorn Way, Red Lodge, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 8FY | 19 May 2026 | £282,000 |
| 58, Acorn Way, Red Lodge, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 8FY | 23 March 2026 | £274,000 |
| 30, Acorn Way, Red Lodge, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 8FY | 6 February 2026 | £385,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 205 m
The Pines Primary School
Free schools
- 556 m
St Christopher's CEVCP School
Academy sponsor led
- 3.1 km
Kennett Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 313
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 164
- Criminal damage and arson 34
- Anti social behaviour 29
- Other theft 20
- Vehicle crime 19
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 157
- Postcode households
- 58
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- IP28 8 residents
- 14,377
73 female, 84 male
Age bands in IP28 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 22.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 35.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 18.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.1%
3,219 residents
1,940 residents
5,056 residents
2,646 residents
1,445 residents
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP28 8 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- 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
2
within 5 km
THE REYNARD SURGERY
TURNPIKE ROAD, RED LODGE, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP28 8JZ
ODS code D83078
890 m
MARKET CROSS SURGERY
7 MARKET PLACE, MILDENHALL, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP28 7EG
ODS code D83018
3.8 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
- 0.1 miles
Thistle Way
BCT · Red Lodge
- 0.1 miles
Thistle Way
BCT · Red Lodge
- 0.3 miles
Sorrell Court
BCT · Red Lodge
- 0.3 miles
Sorrell Court
BCT · Red Lodge
- 0.3 miles
Heathersett Way
BCT · Red Lodge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Suffolk 007D, 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
23,091 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 4
- Low risk addresses
- 8
- 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
Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Pines Primary School is the nearest published school at 205 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
313 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 164 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.