Property market
The five-year median is £143,000 from 10 recorded sales in IP6 8BY. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Mid Suffolk is £320,276 in June 2026, up 5.8% year on year.
IP6 8BY
Needham Market · Mid Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ipswich
- Ward
- Needham Market
- Local authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
- Postcode district
- IP6
- Postcode sector
- IP6 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP6 8BY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2014
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP6
- Postcode sector
- IP6 8
- Latitude
- 52.154202
- Longitude
- 1.052958
- British National Grid easting
- 608,943
- British National Grid northing
- 255,051
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Mid Suffolk · E07000203
- Electoral ward
- Needham Market · E05012604
- Parish or community
- E04010558
- Westminster constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich · E14001156
- Output area
- E00153222
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Suffolk 011C · E01030061
- Middle layer super output area
- Mid Suffolk 011 · E02006271
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
Property
58 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 11, Windsor Court, Needham Market, Ipswich, IP6 8BY | 23 March 2026 | £142,000 |
| 8, Windsor Court, Needham Market, Ipswich, IP6 8BY | 19 September 2025 | £140,000 |
| 7, Windsor Court, Needham Market, Ipswich, IP6 8BY | 17 March 2025 | £140,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 0
- 564 m
Bosmere Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Creeting St Mary Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 4.1 km
Trinity Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 303
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 123
- Anti social behaviour 30
- Criminal damage and arson 28
- Shoplifting 27
- Other theft 24
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 35
- 17 female, 18 male
- Postcode households
- 27
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- IP6 8 residents
- 6,549
Age bands in IP6 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.6%
- 828 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- 548 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- 1,481 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- 1,905 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 27.4%
- 1,795 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP6 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 100%
- 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
NEEDHAM MARKET COUNTRY PRACTICE
BARKING ROAD, NEEDHAM MARKET, IPSWICH, IP6 8EZ
ODS code D83017
890 m
COMBS FORD SURGERY
COMBS LANE, STOWMARKET, IP14 2SY
ODS code D83079
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 225 m
Church
BCT · Needham Market
- 237 m
Entrance
RSE · Needham Market
- 239 m
Needham Market Rail Station
RLY · Needham Market
- 261 m
The Swan
BCT · Needham Market
- 283 m
Council Offices
BCT · Needham Market
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Suffolk 011C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,870 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 3
- 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
5 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 0 secondary schools. Bosmere Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 564 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
303 published events cover 12 months, averaging 25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 123 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.