Schools
59 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 8 secondary schools. Woodbridge Road Academy is the nearest published school at 590 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP4 4AL
St Margaret's · Ipswich · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- St Margaret's
- Local authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich
- Postcode district
- IP4
- Postcode sector
- IP4 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP4 4AL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2013
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP4
- Postcode sector
- IP4 4
- Latitude
- 52.066981
- Longitude
- 1.169701
- British National Grid easting
- 617,351
- British National Grid northing
- 245,696
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Ipswich · E07000202
- Electoral ward
- St Margaret's · E05007127
- Parish or community
- E43000134
- Westminster constituency
- Ipswich · E14001302
- Output area
- E00152933
- Lower layer super output area
- Ipswich 005E · E01030011
- Middle layer super output area
- Ipswich 005 · E02006249
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 59
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 8
- 590 m
Woodbridge Road Academy
Free schools special
- 755 m
Sidegate Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 777 m
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Ipswich
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,171
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,178
- Shoplifting 708
- Criminal damage and arson 250
- Other theft 213
- Public order 213
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 5.0
- IP4 4 residents
- 8,278
2 female, 3 male
Age bands in IP4 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.2%
1,546 residents
796 residents
2,084 residents
2,052 residents
1,345 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP4 4 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
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
ESSEX UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP NHS TRUST
70-74 ST. HELENS STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2LA
ODS code Y06499
1.2 km
IVRY STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 IVRY STREET, IPSWICH, IP1 3QW
ODS code D83024
1.5 km
BARRACK LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 BARRACK LANE, IPSWICH, IP1 3NQ
ODS code D83059
1.8 km
TWO RIVERS MEDICAL CENTRE
30 WOODBRIDGE ROAD EAST, IPSWICH, IP4 5PB
ODS code D83046
1.9 km
BURLINGTON PRIMARY CARE
12-14 BURLINGTON ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 2EU
ODS code D83008
2.0 km
THE DERBY ROAD PRACTICE
52 DERBY ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 8DN
ODS code D83051
2.1 km
FELIXSTOWE ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
235 FELIXSTOWE ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 9BN
ODS code D83004
2.4 km
CARDINAL MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 DEBEN ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 5EN
ODS code D83050
2.7 km
HAWTHORN DRIVE SURGERY
206 HAWTHORN DRIVE, IPSWICH, IP2 0QQ
ODS code D83056
4.0 km
RAVENSWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
24 HENING AVENUE, IPSWICH, IP3 9QJ
ODS code Y01794
4.6 km
EMBRACE MEDICAL CENTRE
TWELVE ACRE APPROACH, IPSWICH, IP5 1JF
ODS code D83084
4.6 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
- 0.0 miles
Old Cemetery
BCT · Ipswich
- 0.1 miles
Old Cemetery
BCT · Ipswich
- 0.1 miles
The Albany
BCT · Ipswich
- 0.1 miles
The Albany
BCT · Ipswich
- 0.2 miles
Belvedere Road
BCT · Ipswich
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Ipswich 005E, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,882 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
Recorded crime
3,171 published events cover 12 months, averaging 264.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,178 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.