Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Old Buckenham Hall School is the nearest published school at 422 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP7 7PJ
North West Cosford · Babergh · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ipswich
- Ward
- North West Cosford
- Local authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk
- Postcode district
- IP7
- Postcode sector
- IP7 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP7 7PJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP7
- Postcode sector
- IP7 7
- Latitude
- 52.141437
- Longitude
- 0.852783
- British National Grid easting
- 595,308
- British National Grid northing
- 253,074
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
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 11, The Gardens, Brettenham, Ipswich, IP7 7PJ | 25 October 2019 | £565,000 |
| 10, The Gardens, Brettenham, Ipswich, IP7 7PJ | 12 October 2018 | £285,000 |
| 11, The Gardens, Brettenham, Ipswich, IP7 7PJ | 30 November 2011 | £482,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 422 m
Old Buckenham Hall School
Other independent school
- 1.8 km
Centre Academy East Anglia
Other independent special school
- 4.1 km
Gable End
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 11
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 8
- Burglary 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- IP7 7 residents
- 5,012
2 female, 4 male
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%
704 residents
583 residents
1,256 residents
1,275 residents
1,143 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% 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+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 66.7%
- 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
- 0.0 miles
Park Gates
BCT · Brettenham
- 0.0 miles
Park Gates
BCT · Brettenham
- 0.7 miles
Church Corner
BCT · Thorpe Morieux
- 0.7 miles
Hall
BCT · Thorpe Morieux
- 0.7 miles
Church Corner
BCT · Thorpe Morieux
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
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
11 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 8 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.