Property market
The five-year median is £415,000 from 625 recorded sales in IP29. 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.
IP29
UK postcode district
Part of Bury St Edmunds
Updated September 2026
District overview
- Postcode units
- 485
- Current units
- 408
- Coordinate coverage
- 100%
- Electoral wards
- 10
Coverage context
- Countries represented
- England
- English regions represented
- East of England
- Local authority codes
- 2
- Terminated postcode units
- 77
Postcode sectors in IP29
Choose a sector to browse its complete postcode-unit directory.
Property
4,556 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 51, The Glebe, Lawshall, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 4PN | 17 July 2026 | £268,500 |
| 59, Beale Road, Barrow, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 5ES | 9 July 2026 | £475,000 |
| 8, Church Close, Rede, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 4BG | 1 July 2026 | £281,500 |
Schools
Across this district
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
Recorded crime
Across this district
- Published events
- 254
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 110
- Criminal damage and arson 33
- Burglary 24
- Other theft 23
- Vehicle crime 22
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- IP29 usual residents
- 9,170
- Age-profile population
- 9,268
Age bands in IP29
Postcode district- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- 1,392 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- 829 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.2%
- 1,684 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- 2,799 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 27.7%
- 2,564 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
The median Ofcom availability percentage across 404 current postcode units in this district. Each postcode is weighted equally, not by premises.
- 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%
In this district, 341 postcode units had 100% superfast coverage, 222 postcode units had 100% gigabit-capable coverage, 12 postcode units had at least some premises without decent fixed or fixed-wireless access.
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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Evidence in context
Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
254 published events cover 12 months, averaging 21 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 110 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.