Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 3 secondary schools. Culford School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP31 1JW
Pakenham & Troston · West Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Pakenham & Troston
- 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 1JW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2020
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP31
- Postcode sector
- IP31 1
- Latitude
- 52.288896
- Longitude
- 0.711742
- British National Grid easting
- 585,045
- British National Grid northing
- 269,101
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- West Suffolk · E07000245
- Electoral ward
- Pakenham & Troston · E05012794
- Parish or community
- E04009355
- Westminster constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket · E14001146
- Output area
- E00153621
- Lower layer super output area
- West Suffolk 006D · E01030133
- Middle layer super output area
- West Suffolk 006 · E02006274
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 3
- 2.3 km
Culford School
Other independent school
- 3.2 km
Tollgate Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 3.4 km
Howard Community Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 26
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 8
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Vehicle crime 4
- Burglary 3
- Drugs 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP31 1 residents
- 5,799
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
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+
- 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%
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
4
within 5 km straight-line
SWAN SURGERY
NORTHGATE BUSINESS PARK, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1AE
ODS code D83610
4.5 km
VICTORIA SURGERY
VICTORIA STREET, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 3BB
ODS code D83040
4.8 km
THE GUILDHALL AND BARROW SURGERY
LOWER BAXTER STREET, BURY ST EDMUNDS, IP33 1ET
ODS code D83013
4.8 km
ANGEL HILL SURGERY
1 ANGEL HILL, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1LU
ODS code D83005
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Green
BCT · Timworth Green
- 0.7 miles
Green
BCT · Timworth Green
- 0.9 miles
Parklands Green
BCT · Fornham St Genevieve
- 0.9 miles
Parklands Green
BCT · Fornham St Genevieve
- 0.9 miles
Oak Close
BCT · Fornham St Genevieve
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Suffolk 006D, 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
15,426 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 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
Recorded crime
26 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 8 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.