Property market
The five-year median is £415,000 from 3 recorded sales in IP8 3LR. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Babergh is £328,612 in June 2026, up 1.9% year on year.
IP8 3LR
Orwell · Babergh · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP8 3LR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP8
- Postcode sector
- IP8 3
- Latitude
- 52.027792
- Longitude
- 1.105645
- British National Grid easting
- 613,148
- British National Grid northing
- 241,149
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Babergh · E07000200
- Electoral ward
- Orwell · E05012581
- Parish or community
- E04009069
- Westminster constituency
- South Suffolk · E14001494
- Output area
- E00152244
- 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
Property
26 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Campion, Chapel Lane, Belstead, Ipswich, IP8 3LR | 20 September 2024 | £415,000 |
| 29, Chapel Lane, Belstead, Ipswich, IP8 3LR | 16 September 2024 | £450,000 |
| Brookfield, Chapel Lane, Belstead, Ipswich, IP8 3LR | 26 July 2024 | £405,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.0 km
Belstead House Adult Education Centre
Miscellaneous
- 1.3 km
The Bridge School
Academy special sponsor led
- 1.4 km
Gusford Community Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 307
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 126
- Shoplifting 51
- Anti social behaviour 31
- Other theft 27
- Public order 23
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 45
- Postcode households
- 23
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- IP8 3 residents
- 7,020
24 female, 21 male
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
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP8 3 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+
- 82.6%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 82.6%
- Gigabit-capable
- 82.6%
- 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.
GP practices
4
within 5 km
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
4.6 km
IVRY STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 IVRY STREET, IPSWICH, IP1 3QW
ODS code D83024
5.0 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
- 0.1 miles
Memorial
BCT · Belstead
- 0.1 miles
Memorial
BCT · Belstead
- 0.7 miles
Shortlands
BCT · Brookwood
- 0.7 miles
Shortlands
BCT · Brookwood
- 0.7 miles
Sycamore Close
BCT · Brookwood
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.
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
Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 2 secondary schools. Belstead House Adult Education Centre is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
307 published events cover 12 months, averaging 25.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 126 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.