Property market
The five-year median is £350,000 from 2 recorded sales in IP31 1TE. 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 1TE
The Fornhams & Great Barton · West Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bury St Edmunds
- 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 1TE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP31
- Postcode sector
- IP31 1
- Latitude
- 52.262093
- Longitude
- 0.717375
- British National Grid easting
- 585,541
- British National Grid northing
- 266,135
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- West Suffolk · E07000245
- Electoral ward
- The Fornhams & Great Barton · E05012800
- Parish or community
- E04009310
- Westminster constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket · E14001146
- Output area
- E00153465
- Lower layer super output area
- West Suffolk 016C · E01034572
- Middle layer super output area
- West Suffolk 016 · E02006276
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
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Manners Road, Fornham St Martin, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 1TE | 14 November 2022 | £345,000 |
| 10, Manners Road, Fornham St Martin, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 1TE | 5 August 2022 | £355,000 |
| 4, Manners Road, Fornham St Martin, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 1TE | 3 March 2016 | £245,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 4
- 884 m
Tollgate Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.1 km
St Benedict's Catholic School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Bury St Edmunds County High School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 910
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 417
- Criminal damage and arson 87
- Public order 71
- Anti social behaviour 63
- Drugs 57
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 35
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- IP31 1 residents
- 5,799
20 female, 15 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 0.6% 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+
- 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
SWAN SURGERY
NORTHGATE BUSINESS PARK, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1AE
ODS code D83610
1.5 km
THE GUILDHALL AND BARROW SURGERY
LOWER BAXTER STREET, BURY ST EDMUNDS, IP33 1ET
ODS code D83013
1.9 km
ANGEL HILL SURGERY
1 ANGEL HILL, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1LU
ODS code D83005
2.0 km
VICTORIA SURGERY
VICTORIA STREET, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 3BB
ODS code D83040
2.0 km
MOUNT FARM SURGERY
LAWSON PLACE, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP32 7EW
ODS code D83038
2.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Barton Hill
BCT · Fornham St Martin
- 0.1 miles
Barton Hill
BCT · Fornham St Martin
- 0.2 miles
Russell Baron Road
BCT · Fornham St Martin
- 0.2 miles
Russell Baron Road
BCT · Fornham St Martin
- 0.3 miles
Tollgate Lane
BCT · Bury St Edmunds
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Suffolk 016C, 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
27,252 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 1
- 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
Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 4 secondary schools. Tollgate Primary School is the nearest published school at 884 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
910 published events cover 12 months, averaging 75.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 417 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.