Property market
The five-year median is £200,000 from 5 recorded sales in IP4 1QD. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Ipswich is £219,070 in June 2026, down 1.1% year on year.
IP4 1QD
Alexandra · Ipswich · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP4 1QD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP4
- Postcode sector
- IP4 1
- Latitude
- 52.053872
- Longitude
- 1.179218
- British National Grid easting
- 618,067
- British National Grid northing
- 244,267
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Ipswich · E07000202
- Electoral ward
- Alexandra · E05007117
- Parish or community
- E43000134
- Westminster constituency
- Ipswich · E14001302
- Output area
- E00152691
- Lower layer super output area
- Ipswich 007D · E01029961
- Middle layer super output area
- Ipswich 007 · E02006251
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 IP4
Property
43 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 73, Darwin Road, Ipswich, IP4 1QD | 17 December 2025 | £345,000 |
| 95, Darwin Road, Ipswich, IP4 1QD | 15 April 2024 | £165,000 |
| 97, Darwin Road, Ipswich, IP4 1QD | 5 September 2023 | £150,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 60
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 9
- 297 m
Clifford Road Primary School & Nursery
Community school
- 496 m
Rose Hill Primary
Academy converter
- 794 m
Britannia Primary School and Nursery
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,449
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,371
- Shoplifting 603
- Criminal damage and arson 307
- Other theft 225
- Anti social behaviour 192
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 42
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- IP4 1 residents
- 4,354
17 female, 25 male
Age bands in IP4 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 14.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 40.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.7%
590 residents
607 residents
1,732 residents
989 residents
325 residents
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP4 1 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
13
within 5 km
THE DERBY ROAD PRACTICE
52 DERBY ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 8DN
ODS code D83051
550 m
FELIXSTOWE ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
235 FELIXSTOWE ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 9BN
ODS code D83004
803 m
ESSEX UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP NHS TRUST
70-74 ST. HELENS STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2LA
ODS code Y06499
1.1 km
DR SOLWAY AND DR ROY PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET HEALTH CTR, ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83073
1.2 km
ORCHARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83074
1.2 km
TWO RIVERS MEDICAL CENTRE
30 WOODBRIDGE ROAD EAST, IPSWICH, IP4 5PB
ODS code D83046
1.3 km
BARRACK LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 BARRACK LANE, IPSWICH, IP1 3NQ
ODS code D83059
2.4 km
IVRY STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 IVRY STREET, IPSWICH, IP1 3QW
ODS code D83024
2.4 km
BURLINGTON PRIMARY CARE
12-14 BURLINGTON ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 2EU
ODS code D83008
2.5 km
RAVENSWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
24 HENING AVENUE, IPSWICH, IP3 9QJ
ODS code Y01794
3.0 km
CARDINAL MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 DEBEN ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 5EN
ODS code D83050
3.9 km
EMBRACE MEDICAL CENTRE
TWELVE ACRE APPROACH, IPSWICH, IP5 1JF
ODS code D83084
4.0 km
HAWTHORN DRIVE SURGERY
206 HAWTHORN DRIVE, IPSWICH, IP2 0QQ
ODS code D83056
4.0 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
Fuschia Lane
BCT · Rose Hill
- 0.1 miles
Fuschia Lane
BCT · Rose Hill
- 0.2 miles
Lions Head
BCT · Copleston
- 0.2 miles
Wellesley Road
BCT · Rose Hill
- 0.2 miles
Lions Head
BCT · Copleston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Ipswich 007D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,855 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 7
- 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
60 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 9 secondary schools. Clifford Road Primary School & Nursery is the nearest published school at 297 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,449 published events cover 12 months, averaging 287.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,371 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.