Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ringshall School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP7 7RB
Battisford & Ringshall · Mid Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
- Postcode district
- IP7
- Postcode sector
- IP7 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP7 7RB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP7
- Postcode sector
- IP7 7
- Latitude
- 52.123732
- Longitude
- 0.970585
- British National Grid easting
- 603,448
- British National Grid northing
- 251,429
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Mid Suffolk · E07000203
- Electoral ward
- Battisford & Ringshall · E05012590
- Parish or community
- E04010555
- Westminster constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich · E14001156
- Output area
- E00173697
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Suffolk 011E · E01030070
- 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 IP7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.6 km
Ringshall School
Academy converter
- 4.5 km
Gable End
Other independent special school
- 4.8 km
Bildeston Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 29
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 13
- Other crime 5
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Other theft 3
- Vehicle crime 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- 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%
704 residents
583 residents
1,256 residents
1,275 residents
1,143 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
BILDESTON HEALTH CENTRE
HIGH STREET, BILDESTON, IPSWICH, IP7 7EX
ODS code D83006
4.7 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Wattisham Airfield
- 0.0 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Wattisham Airfield
- 0.1 miles
Chestnut Avenue
BCT · Wattisham Airfield
- 0.1 miles
Chestnut Avenue
BCT · Wattisham Airfield
- 0.2 miles
Wixfield Park
BCT · Great Bricett
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Suffolk 011E, 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
24,146 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
29 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 13 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.