Property market
The five-year median is £288,935 from 10 recorded sales in IP31 3FJ. 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 3FJ
Thurston · Mid Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bury St Edmunds
- Ward
- Thurston
- Local authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
- Postcode district
- IP31
- Postcode sector
- IP31 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP31 3FJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2021
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP31
- Postcode sector
- IP31 3
- Latitude
- 52.256687
- Longitude
- 0.816798
- British National Grid easting
- 592,348
- British National Grid northing
- 265,793
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Mid Suffolk · E07000203
- Electoral ward
- Thurston · E05012613
- Parish or community
- E04009265
- Westminster constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket · E14001146
- Output area
- E00153353
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Suffolk 004D · E01030084
- 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
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 31, Pond Field Road, Thurston, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 3FJ | 27 November 2025 | £172,000 |
| 37, Pond Field Road, Thurston, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 3FJ | 11 November 2025 | £159,500 |
| 3, Pond Field Road, Thurston, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 3FJ | 19 September 2025 | £115,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 2
- 535 m
Thurston Community College
Community school
- 3.4 km
Rougham Church of England Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 3.5 km
Great Barton Church of England Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 282
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 147
- Shoplifting 32
- Anti social behaviour 21
- Other theft 17
- Public order 17
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP31 3 residents
- 7,297
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
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Rylands Close
BCT · Thurston
- 0.3 miles
Cloverfields
BCT · Thurston
- 0.3 miles
Rylands Close
BCT · Thurston
- 0.3 miles
Cloverfields
BCT · Thurston
- 0.3 miles
Community College Rear Entrance
BCT · Thurston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Suffolk 004D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,153 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 2 secondary schools. Thurston Community College is the nearest published school at 535 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
282 published events cover 12 months, averaging 23.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 147 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.