Schools
52 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 7 secondary schools. Rose Hill Primary is the nearest published school at 594 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP3 8LU
St John's · Ipswich · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP3 8LU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 February 2012
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP3
- Postcode sector
- IP3 8
- Latitude
- 52.047693
- Longitude
- 1.190171
- British National Grid easting
- 618,848
- British National Grid northing
- 243,613
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Ipswich · E07000202
- Electoral ward
- St John's · E05007126
- Parish or community
- E43000134
- Westminster constituency
- Ipswich · E14001302
- Output area
- E00183408
- Lower layer super output area
- Ipswich 008D · E01030005
- Middle layer super output area
- Ipswich 008 · E02006252
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 IP3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 52
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 7
- 594 m
Rose Hill Primary
Academy converter
- 680 m
Britannia Primary School and Nursery
Academy sponsor led
- 732 m
Murrayfield Primary - A Paradigm Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,419
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,018
- Shoplifting 413
- Criminal damage and arson 202
- Vehicle crime 154
- Other theft 127
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP3 8 residents
- 12,450
Age bands in IP3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 19%
2,124 residents
1,327 residents
3,484 residents
3,288 residents
2,394 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.
GP practices
13
within 5 km straight-line
FELIXSTOWE ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
235 FELIXSTOWE ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 9BN
ODS code D83004
348 m
THE DERBY ROAD PRACTICE
52 DERBY ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 8DN
ODS code D83051
613 m
TWO RIVERS MEDICAL CENTRE
30 WOODBRIDGE ROAD EAST, IPSWICH, IP4 5PB
ODS code D83046
1.4 km
RAVENSWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
24 HENING AVENUE, IPSWICH, IP3 9QJ
ODS code Y01794
2.0 km
ESSEX UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP NHS TRUST
70-74 ST. HELENS STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2LA
ODS code Y06499
2.1 km
DR SOLWAY AND DR ROY PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET HEALTH CTR, ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83073
2.2 km
ORCHARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83074
2.2 km
BARRACK LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 BARRACK LANE, IPSWICH, IP1 3NQ
ODS code D83059
3.3 km
IVRY STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 IVRY STREET, IPSWICH, IP1 3QW
ODS code D83024
3.4 km
BURLINGTON PRIMARY CARE
12-14 BURLINGTON ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 2EU
ODS code D83008
3.4 km
EMBRACE MEDICAL CENTRE
TWELVE ACRE APPROACH, IPSWICH, IP5 1JF
ODS code D83084
3.5 km
HAWTHORN DRIVE SURGERY
206 HAWTHORN DRIVE, IPSWICH, IP2 0QQ
ODS code D83056
4.7 km
CARDINAL MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 DEBEN ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 5EN
ODS code D83050
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Ascot Drive
BCT · Racecourse
- 0.2 miles
Ascot Drive
BCT · Racecourse
- 0.2 miles
King Edward Road
BCT · Racecourse
- 0.2 miles
King Edward Road
BCT · Racecourse
- 0.3 miles
St Clements Hospital
BCT · Copleston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Ipswich 008D, 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
20,631 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,419 published events cover 12 months, averaging 201.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,018 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.