Schools
48 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 6 secondary schools. Copleston High School is the nearest published school at 509 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP4 5SN
Bixley · Ipswich · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP4 5SN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2015
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP4
- Postcode sector
- IP4 5
- Latitude
- 52.055310
- Longitude
- 1.201481
- British National Grid easting
- 619,586
- British National Grid northing
- 244,494
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Ipswich · E07000202
- Electoral ward
- Bixley · E05007118
- Parish or community
- E43000134
- Westminster constituency
- Ipswich · E14001302
- Output area
- E00152712
- Lower layer super output area
- Ipswich 009C · E01029965
- Middle layer super output area
- Ipswich 009 · E02006253
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 |
|---|---|---|
| The Bridge School Primary Campus, Heath Road, Ipswich, IP4 5SN | 11 March 2016 | £1,750,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 48
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 6
- 509 m
Copleston High School
Academy converter
- 606 m
Broke Hall Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 752 m
Britannia Primary School and Nursery
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,422
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 666
- Shoplifting 202
- Criminal damage and arson 136
- Public order 82
- Other theft 80
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP4 5 residents
- 12,113
Age bands in IP4 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.2%
2,031 residents
1,252 residents
2,935 residents
3,455 residents
2,441 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
12
within 5 km straight-line
TWO RIVERS MEDICAL CENTRE
30 WOODBRIDGE ROAD EAST, IPSWICH, IP4 5PB
ODS code D83046
687 m
FELIXSTOWE ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
235 FELIXSTOWE ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 9BN
ODS code D83004
1.4 km
THE DERBY ROAD PRACTICE
52 DERBY ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 8DN
ODS code D83051
1.5 km
EMBRACE MEDICAL CENTRE
TWELVE ACRE APPROACH, IPSWICH, IP5 1JF
ODS code D83084
2.5 km
ESSEX UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP NHS TRUST
70-74 ST. HELENS STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2LA
ODS code Y06499
2.6 km
DR SOLWAY AND DR ROY PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET HEALTH CTR, ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83073
2.7 km
ORCHARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83074
2.7 km
RAVENSWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
24 HENING AVENUE, IPSWICH, IP3 9QJ
ODS code Y01794
2.8 km
IVRY STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 IVRY STREET, IPSWICH, IP1 3QW
ODS code D83024
3.8 km
BARRACK LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 BARRACK LANE, IPSWICH, IP1 3NQ
ODS code D83059
3.8 km
BURLINGTON PRIMARY CARE
12-14 BURLINGTON ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 2EU
ODS code D83008
3.9 km
MARTLESHAM SURGERY
23 THE SQUARE, MARTLESHAM HEATH, IPSWICH, IP5 3SL
ODS code D83080
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bridge School
BCT · Copleston
- 0.1 miles
Adelaide Road
BCT · Copleston
- 0.1 miles
Bridge School
BCT · Copleston
- 0.1 miles
Ipswich Hospital
BCS · Copleston
- 0.1 miles
Ipswich Hospital
BCS · Copleston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Ipswich 009C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,857 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,422 published events cover 12 months, averaging 118.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 666 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.