IP31 3HD

Walsham-le-Willows · Mid Suffolk · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Walsham-le-Willows
Local authority: Mid Suffolk
Constituency: Waveney Valley
Postcode district: IP31
Postcode sector: IP31 3

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
IP31 3EX	189 m
IP31 3HA	260 m
IP31 3HE	405 m
IP31 3HG	494 m
IP31 3HF	534 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: IP31 3HD
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: IP
Postcode district: IP31
Postcode sector: IP31 3
Latitude: 52.275701
Longitude: 0.926819
British National Grid easting: 599,770
British National Grid northing: 268,205

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: E04010543
Westminster constituency: Waveney Valley · E14001569
Output area: E00153093
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

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Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 4
Primary: 4
Secondary: 0

Walsham-le-Willows Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School

Voluntary controlled school
3.8 km
Elmswell Community Primary School

Community school
4.5 km
Norton CEVC Primary School

Voluntary controlled school
4.5 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 31
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 11
Burglary 6
Other theft 3
Anti social behaviour 3
Other crime 2

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 3
Postcode households: 2
Residents per household: 1.5
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%

This postcode contained 0% 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+: 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

Church

BCT · Great Ashfield
0.3 miles
Church

BCT · Great Ashfield
0.3 miles
Bus Shelter

BCT · Long Thurlow
0.6 miles
Bus Shelter

BCT · Long Thurlow
0.6 miles
Shelter

BCT · Badwell Ash
0.7 miles

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: 0
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

4 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Walsham-le-Willows Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.3 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

31 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 11 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.