IP7 7NZ

North West Cosford · Babergh · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: North West Cosford
Local authority: Babergh
Constituency: South Suffolk
Postcode district: IP7
Postcode sector: IP7 7

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
IP7 7PA	365 m
IP7 7PB	539 m
IP7 7NY	602 m
IP7 7PD	832 m
IP7 7PE	869 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: IP7 7NZ
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: IP
Postcode district: IP7
Postcode sector: IP7 7
Latitude: 52.151677
Longitude: 0.887649
British National Grid easting: 597,648
British National Grid northing: 254,307

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: East of England · E12000006
Local authority district: Babergh · E07000200
Electoral ward: North West Cosford · E05012580
Parish or community: E04009076
Westminster constituency: South Suffolk · E14001494
Output area: E00152241
Lower layer super output area: Babergh 001A · E01029876
Middle layer super output area: Babergh 001 · E02006227

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 IP7

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 5
Primary: 2
Secondary: 0

Centre Academy East Anglia

Other independent special school
906 m
Old Buckenham Hall School

Other independent school
2.4 km
Gable End

Other independent special school
3.4 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 8
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Burglary 2
Other theft 2
Violence and sexual offences 2
Vehicle crime 1
Anti social behaviour 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 8
Postcode households: 5
Residents per household: 1.6
IP7 7 residents: 5,012

Age bands in IP7 7

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 14.2%
Age 15 to 24: 11.8%
Age 25 to 44: 25.3%
Age 45 to 64: 25.7%
Age 65 and over: 23%

This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP7 7 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nearby transport

Church

BCT · Brettenham
0.6 miles
Church

BCT · Brettenham
0.6 miles
Telephone Box

BCT · Cross Green
1.1 miles
Telephone Box

BCT · Cross Green
1.1 miles
Brettenham Road

BCT · Cross Green
1.2 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Babergh 001A, 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

4 of 10

Overall England rank

12,930 of 33,755

Income: 6 of 10
Employment: 5 of 10
Education and skills: 4 of 10
Health and disability: 9 of 10
Crime: 8 of 10
Housing and services: 1 of 10
Living environment: 1 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: 1
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 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Centre Academy East Anglia is the nearest published school at 906 m.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 2 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.