Property market
The five-year median is £430,000 from 1 recorded sale in IP31 1DF. 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.
IP31 1DF
Barningham · West Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bury St Edmunds
- Ward
- Barningham
- Local authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
- Postcode district
- IP31
- Postcode sector
- IP31 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP31 1DF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP31
- Postcode sector
- IP31 1
- Latitude
- 52.350155
- Longitude
- 0.883023
- British National Grid easting
- 596,453
- British National Grid northing
- 276,364
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- West Suffolk · E07000245
- Electoral ward
- Barningham · E05012765
- Parish or community
- E04009289
- Westminster constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket · E14001146
- Output area
- E00153409
- Lower layer super output area
- West Suffolk 005B · E01030096
- Middle layer super output area
- West Suffolk 005 · E02006273
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 IP31
Property
31 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Blackthorn House, Bardwell Road, Barningham, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 1DF | 24 February 2023 | £430,000 |
| 6, Bardwell Road, Barningham, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 1DF | 19 March 2021 | £249,000 |
| Tythe Barn Cottages, 2, Bardwell Road, Barningham, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 1DF | 12 December 2018 | £295,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 499 m
Barningham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.2 km
Stanton Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.4 km
Bardwell Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 47
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 20
- Anti social behaviour 7
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Other theft 5
- Vehicle crime 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 78
- Postcode households
- 34
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- IP31 1 residents
- 5,799
37 female, 41 male
Age bands in IP31 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.1%
823 residents
711 residents
1,381 residents
1,579 residents
1,430 residents
This postcode contained 1.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP31 1 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+
- 94.1%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 2.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 2.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 2.9%
- 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
1
within 5 km
STANTON SURGERY
10 THE CHASE, STANTON, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP31 2XA
ODS code D83070
2.8 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
- 0.3 miles
Royal George
BCT · Barningham
- 0.3 miles
Royal George
BCT · Barningham
- 0.3 miles
Royal George
BCT · Barningham
- 0.3 miles
Royal George
BCT · Barningham
- 0.5 miles
West Wood
BCT · Barningham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Suffolk 005B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,468 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
4 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Barningham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School is the nearest published school at 499 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
47 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 20 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.