Property market
The five-year median is £250,000 from 3 recorded sales in IP31 2XJ. 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 2XJ
Stanton · West Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bury St Edmunds
- 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 2XJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP31
- Postcode sector
- IP31 2
- Latitude
- 52.326028
- Longitude
- 0.881498
- British National Grid easting
- 596,456
- British National Grid northing
- 273,677
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
- E00153692
- Lower layer super output area
- West Suffolk 005D · E01030145
- 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
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 9, Capell Walk, Stanton, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 2XJ | 13 February 2026 | £350,000 |
| 4, Capell Walk, Stanton, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 2XJ | 13 June 2024 | £250,000 |
| 7, Capell Walk, Stanton, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 2XJ | 2 December 2022 | £210,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 699 m
Stanton Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.4 km
Bardwell Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.1 km
Barningham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 68
- 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
- 23
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- IP31 2 residents
- 8,206
12 female, 11 male
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
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP31 2 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
2
within 5 km
STANTON SURGERY
10 THE CHASE, STANTON, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP31 2XA
ODS code D83070
124 m
IXWORTH SURGERY
PEDDARS CLOSE, THETFORD ROAD, IXWORTH, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP31 2HD
ODS code D83007
4.3 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
- 0.1 miles
Jacobs Close
BCT · Stanton
- 0.1 miles
Jacobs Close
BCT · Stanton
- 0.2 miles
Memorial
BCT · Stanton
- 0.2 miles
Coach Stop
BCT · Stanton
- 0.2 miles
Memorial
BCT · Stanton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Suffolk 005D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,314 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 4
- 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
6 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Stanton Primary School is the nearest published school at 699 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
68 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.667 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.