Property market
The five-year median is £349,000 from 1 recorded sale in IP8 4LH. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Mid Suffolk is £320,276 in June 2026, up 5.8% year on year.
IP8 4LH
Blakenham · Mid Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ipswich
- Ward
- Blakenham
- Local authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
- Postcode district
- IP8
- Postcode sector
- IP8 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP8 4LH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP8
- Postcode sector
- IP8 4
- Latitude
- 52.079886
- Longitude
- 1.028597
- British National Grid easting
- 607,622
- British National Grid northing
- 246,718
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Mid Suffolk · E07000203
- Electoral ward
- Blakenham · E05012591
- Parish or community
- E04009199
- Westminster constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich · E14001156
- Output area
- E00153115
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Suffolk 012A · E01030042
- Middle layer super output area
- Mid Suffolk 012 · E02006272
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
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Pitlochry, Flowton, Ipswich, IP8 4LH | 3 December 2021 | £349,000 |
| Flowton Hall, Flowton, Ipswich, IP8 4LH | 10 March 2021 | £1,250,000 |
| Gate House, Flowton, Ipswich, IP8 4LH | 27 September 2013 | £499,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.8 km
Acorn Cottage The Lodge
Other independent special school
- 1.9 km
Elmsett Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.3 km
Somersham Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Burglary 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- IP8 4 residents
- 4,396
9 female, 11 male
Age bands in IP8 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.6%
579 residents
370 residents
899 residents
1,255 residents
1,371 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP8 4 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+
- 30%
- 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
- 0.4 miles
Village Sign
BCT · Flowton
- 0.4 miles
Village Sign
BCT · Flowton
- 0.9 miles
Brook
BCT · Flowton Brook
- 0.9 miles
Brook
BCT · Flowton Brook
- 1.4 miles
Springfield Road
BCT · Somersham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Suffolk 012A, 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
23,419 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
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
- 1
- 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 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Acorn Cottage The Lodge is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
4 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.