Schools
58 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 9 secondary schools. Northgate High School is the nearest published school at 258 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP4 4SS
Rushmere · Ipswich · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP4 4SS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2012
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP4
- Postcode sector
- IP4 4
- Latitude
- 52.069627
- Longitude
- 1.180615
- British National Grid easting
- 618,086
- British National Grid northing
- 246,023
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Ipswich · E07000202
- Electoral ward
- Rushmere · E05007125
- Parish or community
- E43000134
- Westminster constituency
- Ipswich · E14001302
- Output area
- E00152884
- Lower layer super output area
- Ipswich 004E · E01030001
- Middle layer super output area
- Ipswich 004 · E02006248
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 109e, Colchester Road, Ipswich, IP4 4SS | 6 February 2015 | £274,995 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 58
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 9
- 258 m
Northgate High School
Community school
- 408 m
Sidegate Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 585 m
Rushmere Hall Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,131
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 557
- Criminal damage and arson 118
- Shoplifting 84
- Other theft 83
- Vehicle crime 72
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP4 4 residents
- 8,278
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
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.
GP practices
13
within 5 km straight-line
TWO RIVERS MEDICAL CENTRE
30 WOODBRIDGE ROAD EAST, IPSWICH, IP4 5PB
ODS code D83046
1.5 km
DR SOLWAY AND DR ROY PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET HEALTH CTR, ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83073
1.9 km
ORCHARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83074
1.9 km
ESSEX UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP NHS TRUST
70-74 ST. HELENS STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2LA
ODS code Y06499
1.9 km
THE DERBY ROAD PRACTICE
52 DERBY ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 8DN
ODS code D83051
2.3 km
IVRY STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 IVRY STREET, IPSWICH, IP1 3QW
ODS code D83024
2.3 km
FELIXSTOWE ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
235 FELIXSTOWE ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 9BN
ODS code D83004
2.5 km
BARRACK LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 BARRACK LANE, IPSWICH, IP1 3NQ
ODS code D83059
2.6 km
BURLINGTON PRIMARY CARE
12-14 BURLINGTON ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 2EU
ODS code D83008
2.8 km
CARDINAL MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 DEBEN ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 5EN
ODS code D83050
3.4 km
EMBRACE MEDICAL CENTRE
TWELVE ACRE APPROACH, IPSWICH, IP5 1JF
ODS code D83084
3.9 km
RAVENSWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
24 HENING AVENUE, IPSWICH, IP3 9QJ
ODS code Y01794
4.6 km
HAWTHORN DRIVE SURGERY
206 HAWTHORN DRIVE, IPSWICH, IP2 0QQ
ODS code D83056
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
116
BCT · Rushmere
- 0.1 miles
Lancing Avenue
BCT · Rushmere
- 0.1 miles
Lancing Avenue
BCT · Rushmere
- 0.1 miles
Royal George
BCT · Rushmere
- 0.1 miles
Royal George
BCT · Rushmere
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Ipswich 004E, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,711 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,131 published events cover 12 months, averaging 94.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 557 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.