Property market
The five-year median is £645,000 from 5 recorded sales in IP31 3EL. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Mid Suffolk is £320,276 in June 2026, up 5.8% year on year.
IP31 3EL
Walsham-le-Willows · Mid Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bury St Edmunds
- Ward
- Walsham-le-Willows
- Local authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley
- Postcode district
- IP31
- Postcode sector
- IP31 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP31 3EL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP31
- Postcode sector
- IP31 3
- Latitude
- 52.279281
- Longitude
- 0.892891
- British National Grid easting
- 597,440
- British National Grid northing
- 268,510
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Mid Suffolk · E07000203
- Electoral ward
- Walsham-le-Willows · E05012614
- Parish or community
- E04009219
- Westminster constituency
- Waveney Valley · E14001569
- Output area
- E00153097
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Suffolk 004A · E01030040
- Middle layer super output area
- Mid Suffolk 004 · E02006264
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
45 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Ardnagaul, Hunston, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 3EL | 11 July 2025 | £860,000 |
| Windsor Cottage, Hunston, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 3EL | 31 March 2025 | £610,000 |
| Rose Cottage, Hunston, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 3EL | 23 January 2024 | £740,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 3.1 km
Norton CEVC Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.1 km
Thurston Church of England Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 4.3 km
Ixworth High School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Burglary 1
- Other theft 1
- Vehicle crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 59
- Postcode households
- 23
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- IP31 3 residents
- 7,297
27 female, 32 male
Age bands in IP31 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.1%
1,103 residents
689 residents
1,402 residents
2,209 residents
1,911 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP31 3 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
1
within 5 km
IXWORTH SURGERY
PEDDARS CLOSE, THETFORD ROAD, IXWORTH, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP31 2HD
ODS code D83007
5.0 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
Saxon Meadows
BCT · Hunston
- 0.1 miles
Saxon Meadows
BCT · Hunston
- 0.9 miles
Shelter
BCT · Badwell Ash
- 0.9 miles
Shelter
BCT · Badwell Ash
- 0.9 miles
Old Post Office
BCT · Stowlangtoft
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Suffolk 004A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,730 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 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
- 3 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
- 1
- 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. Norton CEVC Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
5 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.