Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. Copdock Primary School is the nearest published school at 583 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP8 3HW
Copdock & Washbrook · Babergh · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Copdock & Washbrook
- Local authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk
- Postcode district
- IP8
- Postcode sector
- IP8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP8 3HW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1996
- Terminated
- 1 September 2000
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP8
- Postcode sector
- IP8 3
- Latitude
- 52.039601
- Longitude
- 1.089226
- British National Grid easting
- 611,966
- British National Grid northing
- 242,414
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Babergh · E07000200
- Electoral ward
- Copdock & Washbrook · E05012572
- Parish or community
- E04009138
- Westminster constituency
- South Suffolk · E14001494
- Output area
- E00152257
- Lower layer super output area
- Babergh 005C · E01029879
- Middle layer super output area
- Babergh 005 · E02006231
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 IP8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 583 m
Copdock Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
The Bridge School
Academy special sponsor led
- 1.2 km
One Sixth Form College
Academy 16-19 converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 323
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 165
- Shoplifting 37
- Anti social behaviour 28
- Public order 26
- Other theft 22
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP8 3 residents
- 7,020
Age bands in IP8 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.3%
1,034 residents
670 residents
1,725 residents
2,045 residents
1,311 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
HAWTHORN DRIVE SURGERY
206 HAWTHORN DRIVE, IPSWICH, IP2 0QQ
ODS code D83056
2.4 km
BURLINGTON PRIMARY CARE
12-14 BURLINGTON ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 2EU
ODS code D83008
4.4 km
BARRACK LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 BARRACK LANE, IPSWICH, IP1 3NQ
ODS code D83059
4.5 km
CARDINAL MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 DEBEN ROAD, IPSWICH, IP1 5EN
ODS code D83050
4.6 km
IVRY STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 IVRY STREET, IPSWICH, IP1 3QW
ODS code D83024
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
London Road
BCT · Washbrook
- 0.1 miles
London Road
BCT · Washbrook
- 0.2 miles
Brook Inn
BCT · Washbrook
- 0.3 miles
Garage
BCT · Copdock
- 0.3 miles
Garage
BCT · Copdock
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Babergh 005C, 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
21,552 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
323 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 165 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.