Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Birchwood Primary School is the nearest published school at 65 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP5 7UY
Martlesham & Purdis Farm · East Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal
- Postcode district
- IP5
- Postcode sector
- IP5 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP5 7UY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 1987
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP5
- Postcode sector
- IP5 7
- Latitude
- 52.060466
- Longitude
- 1.270444
- British National Grid easting
- 624,287
- British National Grid northing
- 245,278
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
- E04013241
- Westminster constituency
- Suffolk Coastal · E14001530
- Output area
- E00153950
- Lower layer super output area
- East Suffolk 025C · E01030191
- Middle layer super output area
- East Suffolk 025 · E02006296
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
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Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 65 m
Birchwood Primary School
Community school
- 611 m
Gorseland Primary School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Martlesham Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 714
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 277
- Other crime 136
- Shoplifting 72
- Criminal damage and arson 57
- Other theft 56
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
MARTLESHAM SURGERY
23 THE SQUARE, MARTLESHAM HEATH, IPSWICH, IP5 3SL
ODS code D83080
149 m
EMBRACE MEDICAL CENTRE
TWELVE ACRE APPROACH, IPSWICH, IP5 1JF
ODS code D83084
2.4 km
FRAMFIELD HOUSE SURGERY
IPSWICH ROAD, WOODBRIDGE, IP12 4FD
ODS code D83057
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Valiant Road
BCT · Martlesham Heath
- 0.1 miles
Valiant Road
BCT · Martlesham Heath
- 0.2 miles
Eagle Way
BCT · Martlesham Heath
- 0.2 miles
Parkers Place
BCT · Martlesham Heath
- 0.2 miles
Parkers Place
BCT · Martlesham Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Suffolk 025C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,121 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
714 published events cover 12 months, averaging 59.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 277 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.