Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 4 secondary schools. Kesgrave High School is the nearest published school at 586 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP5 1BZ
Carlford & Fynn Valley · East Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
- Postcode district
- IP5
- Postcode sector
- IP5 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP5 1BZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 December 1997
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP5
- Postcode sector
- IP5 1
- Latitude
- 52.070939
- Longitude
- 1.238737
- British National Grid easting
- 622,062
- British National Grid northing
- 246,345
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- East Suffolk · E07000244
- Electoral ward
- Carlford & Fynn Valley · E05012737
- Parish or community
- E04009445
- Westminster constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich · E14001156
- Output area
- E00154123
- Lower layer super output area
- East Suffolk 021C · E01030221
- Middle layer super output area
- East Suffolk 021 · E02006292
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 IP5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 4
- 586 m
Kesgrave High School
Academy converter
- 901 m
Heath Primary School, Kesgrave
Community school
- 1.6 km
Cedarwood Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 219
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 121
- Anti social behaviour 21
- Criminal damage and arson 19
- Other theft 15
- Shoplifting 14
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP5 1 residents
- 5,380
Age bands in IP5 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 33.4%
769 residents
497 residents
1,002 residents
1,455 residents
1,863 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
EMBRACE MEDICAL CENTRE
TWELVE ACRE APPROACH, IPSWICH, IP5 1JF
ODS code D83084
989 m
MARTLESHAM SURGERY
23 THE SQUARE, MARTLESHAM HEATH, IPSWICH, IP5 3SL
ODS code D83080
2.5 km
TWO RIVERS MEDICAL CENTRE
30 WOODBRIDGE ROAD EAST, IPSWICH, IP4 5PB
ODS code D83046
3.2 km
FELIXSTOWE ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
235 FELIXSTOWE ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 9BN
ODS code D83004
4.5 km
THE DERBY ROAD PRACTICE
52 DERBY ROAD, IPSWICH, IP3 8DN
ODS code D83051
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
St Olaves
BCT · Kesgrave
- 0.4 miles
Bell Lane
BCT · Kesgrave
- 0.4 miles
Community Centre
BCT · Grange Farm
- 0.4 miles
High School
BCT · Kesgrave
- 0.4 miles
Community Centre
BCT · Grange Farm
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Suffolk 021C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,179 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
219 published events cover 12 months, averaging 18.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 121 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.