Property market
The five-year median is £843,000 from 2 recorded sales in IP4 2BA. 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 2BA
Alexandra · Ipswich · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP4 2BA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP4
- Postcode sector
- IP4 2
- Latitude
- 52.059076
- Longitude
- 1.156943
- British National Grid easting
- 616,515
- British National Grid northing
- 244,779
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
- E00152699
- Lower layer super output area
- Ipswich 007H · E01033129
- 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
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 12, St Margarets Plain, Ipswich, IP4 2BA | 13 March 2026 | £1,470,000 |
| 2, St Margarets Plain, Ipswich, IP4 2BA | 30 September 2021 | £216,000 |
| 2, St Margarets Plain, Ipswich, IP4 2BA | 3 February 2021 | £216,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 62
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 8
- 208 m
St Margaret's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Ipswich
Voluntary aided school
- 498 m
Learning Support, Southern Area Education Office
Miscellaneous
- 607 m
St Helen's Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,090
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,376
- Shoplifting 1,035
- Criminal damage and arson 485
- Public order 429
- Other theft 411
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- 0 female, 2 male
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- IP4 2 residents
- 8,267
Age bands in IP4 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.7%
- 1,556 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.8%
- 1,033 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.6%
- 2,780 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- 2,271 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 13.1%
- 1,149 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP4 2 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+
- 83.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 83.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 83.3%
- 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
12
within 5 km straight-line
DR SOLWAY AND DR ROY PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET HEALTH CTR, ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83073
419 m
ORCHARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83074
419 m
ESSEX UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP NHS TRUST
70-74 ST. HELENS STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2LA
ODS code Y06499
546 m
BARRACK LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 BARRACK LANE, IPSWICH, IP1 3NQ
ODS code D83059
742 m
IVRY STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 IVRY STREET, IPSWICH, IP1 3QW
ODS code D83024
793 m
BURLINGTON PRIMARY CARE
12-14 BURLINGTON ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 2EU
ODS code D83008
868 m
THE DERBY ROAD PRACTICE
52 DERBY ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 8DN
ODS code D83051
2.0 km
CARDINAL MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 DEBEN ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 5EN
ODS code D83050
2.3 km
FELIXSTOWE ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
235 FELIXSTOWE ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 9BN
ODS code D83004
2.3 km
TWO RIVERS MEDICAL CENTRE
30 WOODBRIDGE ROAD EAST, IPSWICH, IP4 5PB
ODS code D83046
2.6 km
HAWTHORN DRIVE SURGERY
206 HAWTHORN DRIVE, IPSWICH, IP2 0QQ
ODS code D83056
2.8 km
RAVENSWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
24 HENING AVENUE, IPSWICH, IP3 9QJ
ODS code Y01794
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 54 m
Library
BCT · Ipswich
- 65 m
Christchurch Mansion Gates
BCT · Ipswich
- 78 m
Crown Street
BCT · Ipswich
- 93 m
Northgate Street
BCT · Ipswich
- 118 m
Soane Street
BCT · St Margarets
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Ipswich 007H, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,191 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
- 3
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
62 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 8 secondary schools. St Margaret's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Ipswich is the nearest published school at 208 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
6,090 published events cover 12 months, averaging 508 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,376 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.