Schools
41 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 6 secondary schools. New Skill Centre is the nearest published school at 677 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP3 8ZU
Martlesham & Purdis Farm · East Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal
- Postcode district
- IP3
- Postcode sector
- IP3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP3 8ZU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 2004
- Terminated
- 1 October 2005
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP3
- Postcode sector
- IP3 8
- Latitude
- 52.037846
- Longitude
- 1.206343
- British National Grid easting
- 620,005
- British National Grid northing
- 242,567
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- East Suffolk · E07000244
- Electoral ward
- Martlesham & Purdis Farm · E05015549
- Parish or community
- E04009446
- Westminster constituency
- Suffolk Coastal · E14001530
- Output area
- E00153979
- Lower layer super output area
- East Suffolk 026A · E01030196
- Middle layer super output area
- East Suffolk 026 · E02006297
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
- 41
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 6
- 677 m
New Skill Centre
Other independent special school
- 993 m
Sir Bobby Robson School
Free schools special
- 1.2 km
Ravenswood Community Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,225
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 519
- Shoplifting 142
- Vehicle crime 122
- Criminal damage and arson 111
- Public order 73
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
11
within 5 km straight-line
RAVENSWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
24 HENING AVENUE, IPSWICH, IP3 9QJ
ODS code Y01794
957 m
FELIXSTOWE ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
235 FELIXSTOWE ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 9BN
ODS code D83004
1.8 km
THE DERBY ROAD PRACTICE
52 DERBY ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 8DN
ODS code D83051
2.1 km
TWO RIVERS MEDICAL CENTRE
30 WOODBRIDGE ROAD EAST, IPSWICH, IP4 5PB
ODS code D83046
2.6 km
EMBRACE MEDICAL CENTRE
TWELVE ACRE APPROACH, IPSWICH, IP5 1JF
ODS code D83084
3.4 km
ESSEX UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP NHS TRUST
70-74 ST. HELENS STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2LA
ODS code Y06499
3.6 km
DR SOLWAY AND DR ROY PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET HEALTH CTR, ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83073
3.7 km
ORCHARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83074
3.7 km
BARRACK LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 BARRACK LANE, IPSWICH, IP1 3NQ
ODS code D83059
4.8 km
BURLINGTON PRIMARY CARE
12-14 BURLINGTON ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 2EU
ODS code D83008
4.9 km
IVRY STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 IVRY STREET, IPSWICH, IP1 3QW
ODS code D83024
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sainsbury's Car Park
BCT · Warren Heath
- 0.1 miles
Brook Car Sales
BCT · Warren Heath
- 0.2 miles
Brook Car Sales
BCT · Warren Heath
- 0.2 miles
Pearse Way
BCT · Warren Heath
- 0.2 miles
Pearse Way
BCT · Warren Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Suffolk 026A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,967 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
1,225 published events cover 12 months, averaging 102.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 519 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.