Property market
The five-year median is £17,561,582 from 1 recorded sale in IP4 5SW. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for East Suffolk is £278,376 in June 2026, up 1.2% year on year.
IP4 5SW
Martlesham & Purdis Farm · East Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ipswich
- Local authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal
- Postcode district
- IP4
- Postcode sector
- IP4 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP4 5SW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP4
- Postcode sector
- IP4 5
- Latitude
- 52.047535
- Longitude
- 1.228962
- British National Grid easting
- 621,508
- British National Grid northing
- 243,713
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- East Suffolk · E07000244
- Electoral ward
- Martlesham & Purdis Farm · E05015549
- Parish or community
- E04009406
- Westminster constituency
- Suffolk Coastal · E14001530
- Output area
- E00153974
- Lower layer super output area
- East Suffolk 026B · E01030197
- Middle layer super output area
- East Suffolk 026 · E02006297
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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nuffield Hospital, Foxhall Road, Ipswich, IP4 5SW | 23 September 2022 | £17,561,582 |
| Nuffield Hospital, Foxhall Road, Ipswich, IP4 5SW | 1 September 2020 | £3,819,679 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 39
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.4 km
Cedarwood Primary School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Broke Hall Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Heath Primary School, Kesgrave
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 175
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 80
- Criminal damage and arson 18
- Other theft 17
- Anti social behaviour 17
- Vehicle crime 14
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
EMBRACE MEDICAL CENTRE
TWELVE ACRE APPROACH, IPSWICH, IP5 1JF
ODS code D83084
1.7 km
TWO RIVERS MEDICAL CENTRE
30 WOODBRIDGE ROAD EAST, IPSWICH, IP4 5PB
ODS code D83046
2.7 km
RAVENSWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
24 HENING AVENUE, IPSWICH, IP3 9QJ
ODS code Y01794
2.8 km
FELIXSTOWE ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
235 FELIXSTOWE ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 9BN
ODS code D83004
3.0 km
THE DERBY ROAD PRACTICE
52 DERBY ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 8DN
ODS code D83051
3.3 km
MARTLESHAM SURGERY
23 THE SQUARE, MARTLESHAM HEATH, IPSWICH, IP5 3SL
ODS code D83080
3.3 km
ESSEX UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP NHS TRUST
70-74 ST. HELENS STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2LA
ODS code Y06499
4.6 km
DR SOLWAY AND DR ROY PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET HEALTH CTR, ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83073
4.7 km
ORCHARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
ORCHARD STREET, IPSWICH, IP4 2PZ
ODS code D83074
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Stadium
BCT · Foxhall
- 0.2 miles
Stadium
BCT · Foxhall
- 0.3 miles
Brookhill Way
BCT · Foxhall
- 0.3 miles
Brookhill Way
BCT · Foxhall
- 0.5 miles
Glemham Drive
BCT · Bixley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Suffolk 026B, 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
27,806 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
- 1
- 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
Schools
39 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 5 secondary schools. Cedarwood Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
175 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 80 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.