Property market
The five-year median is £165,000 from 1 recorded sale in IP31 3GT. 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 3GT
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 3GT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP31
- Postcode sector
- IP31 3
- Latitude
- 52.258946
- Longitude
- 0.839965
- British National Grid easting
- 593,919
- British National Grid northing
- 266,106
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
- E00153349
- 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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Swallow Cottage, Poplar Farm Lane, Thurston, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 3GT | 11 January 2022 | £165,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.0 km
Norton CEVC Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.0 km
Thurston Church of England Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 2.1 km
Thurston Community College
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 25
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 10
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Other crime 3
- Public order 3
- Other theft 2
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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
IXWORTH SURGERY
PEDDARS CLOSE, THETFORD ROAD, IXWORTH, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP31 2HD
ODS code D83007
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Poplar Farm
BCT · Great Green
- 0.2 miles
Poplar Farm
BCT · Great Green
- 0.8 miles
Rectory Gardens
BCT · Thurston
- 0.9 miles
Rectory Gardens
BCT · Thurston
- 0.9 miles
Hall
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
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 2 secondary schools. Norton CEVC Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
25 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.