Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Claydon High School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP6 0LA
Blakenham · Mid Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Blakenham
- Local authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
- Postcode district
- IP6
- Postcode sector
- IP6 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP6 0LA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2001
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP6
- Postcode sector
- IP6 0
- Latitude
- 52.101237
- Longitude
- 1.097107
- British National Grid easting
- 612,214
- British National Grid northing
- 249,290
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Mid Suffolk · E07000203
- Electoral ward
- Blakenham · E05012591
- Parish or community
- E04009223
- Westminster constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich · E14001156
- Output area
- E00153120
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Suffolk 012A · E01030042
- Middle layer super output area
- Mid Suffolk 012 · E02006272
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 IP6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.4 km
Claydon High School
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- 1.5 km
Claydon Primary School
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- 2.9 km
Thomas Wolsey Ormiston Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 194
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 86
- Anti social behaviour 26
- Other theft 21
- Criminal damage and arson 16
- Vehicle crime 14
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP6 0 residents
- 6,764
Age bands in IP6 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.1%
1,095 residents
696 residents
1,738 residents
1,741 residents
1,410 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
CARDINAL MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 DEBEN ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 5EN
ODS code D83050
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Pound Lane
BCT · Little Blakenham
- 0.4 miles
Pound Lane
BCT · Little Blakenham
- 0.4 miles
Railway Bridge
BCT · Great Blakenham
- 0.4 miles
Railway Bridge
BCT · Great Blakenham
- 0.6 miles
Chapel Lane
BCT · Claydon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Suffolk 012A, 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
23,419 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
194 published events cover 12 months, averaging 16.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 86 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.