IP28 8RH
The Rows · West Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
- Post town
- Bury St Edmunds
- Ward
- The Rows
- Local authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk
- Postcode district
- IP28
- Postcode sector
- IP28 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP28 8RH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP28
- Postcode sector
- IP28 8
- Latitude
- 52.395451
- Longitude
- 0.408325
- British National Grid easting
- 563,960
- British National Grid northing
- 280,219
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- West Suffolk · E07000245
- Electoral ward
- The Rows · E05012801
- Parish or community
- E04012953
- Westminster constituency
- West Suffolk · E14001578
- Output area
- E00152552
- Lower layer super output area
- West Suffolk 003D · E01032526
- 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 IP28
Property
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| County Farm, West Row Fen, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 8RH | 8 December 2006 | £250,000 |
| County Farm, West Row Fen, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 8RH | 30 August 2002 | £250,000 |
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- IP28 8 residents
- 14,377
1 female, 2 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 0% 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 1.2 miles
The Chestnuts
BCT · Kenny Hill
- 1.2 miles
The Chestnuts
BCT · Kenny Hill
- 1.3 miles
Council Houses
BCT · Kenny Hill
- 1.3 miles
Council Houses
BCT · Kenny Hill
- 1.8 miles
Church
BCT · Kenny Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Suffolk 003D, 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
18,248 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 2
- 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.