Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Stanton Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.5 km.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP31 2FT
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 2FT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP31
- Postcode sector
- IP31 2
- Latitude
- 52.314893
- Longitude
- 0.907584
- British National Grid easting
- 598,283
- British National Grid northing
- 272,510
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
- E00153690
- 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 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.5 km
Stanton Primary School
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- 2.4 km
Walsham-le-Willows Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.4 km
Bardwell Church of England Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Public order 2
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Drugs 1
- Other theft 1
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%
- 1,385 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- 761 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.7%
- 1,705 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- 2,315 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 28.7%
- 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
STANTON SURGERY
10 THE CHASE, STANTON, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP31 2XA
ODS code D83070
2.0 km
Nearby transport
- 132 m
Upthorpe House Farm
BCT · Upthorpe
- 152 m
Upthorpe House Farm
BCT · Upthorpe
- 517 m
Drovers Rise
BCT · Sheperds Grove
- 518 m
Drovers Rise
BCT · Sheperds Grove
- 743 m
Cafe
BCT · Sheperds Grove
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
9 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1 event per published month. The largest recorded category is Public order with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.