Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Stanton Primary School is the nearest published school at 353 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP31 2BT
Stanton · West Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Stanton
- Local authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
- Postcode district
- IP31
- Postcode sector
- IP31 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP31 2BT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2020
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP31
- Postcode sector
- IP31 2
- Latitude
- 52.324226
- Longitude
- 0.885681
- British National Grid easting
- 596,749
- British National Grid northing
- 273,488
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- West Suffolk · E07000245
- Electoral ward
- Stanton · E05012799
- Parish or community
- E04009350
- Westminster constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket · E14001146
- Output area
- E00153685
- Lower layer super output area
- West Suffolk 005E · E01030146
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 353 m
Stanton Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.7 km
Bardwell Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.2 km
Barningham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 69
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 34
- Shoplifting 9
- Anti social behaviour 7
- Other theft 6
- Criminal damage and arson 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP31 2 residents
- 8,206
Age bands in IP31 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.7%
1,385 residents
761 residents
1,705 residents
2,315 residents
2,488 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
STANTON SURGERY
10 THE CHASE, STANTON, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP31 2XA
ODS code D83070
226 m
IXWORTH SURGERY
PEDDARS CLOSE, THETFORD ROAD, IXWORTH, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP31 2HD
ODS code D83007
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Knoll Corner
BCT · Stanton
- 0.0 miles
Knoll Corner
BCT · Stanton
- 0.1 miles
Memorial
BCT · Stanton
- 0.1 miles
Memorial
BCT · Stanton
- 0.1 miles
Buckles Field
BCT · Stanton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Suffolk 005E, 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
16,554 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
69 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 34 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.