Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ringshall School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IP8 4WA
Battisford & Ringshall · Mid Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 4WA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- 1 May 2002
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP8
- Postcode sector
- IP8 4
- Latitude
- 52.119883
- Longitude
- 1.012712
- British National Grid easting
- 606,349
- British National Grid northing
- 251,120
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
- E04009277
- Westminster constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich · E14001156
- Output area
- E00153106
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Suffolk 011A · E01030041
- 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
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Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.3 km
Ringshall School
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- 3.7 km
Somersham Primary School
Community school
- 4.2 km
Bosmere Community Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Other theft 1
- Public order 1
- Vehicle crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IP8 4 residents
- 4,396
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
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
NEEDHAM MARKET COUNTRY PRACTICE
BARKING ROAD, NEEDHAM MARKET, IPSWICH, IP6 8EZ
ODS code D83017
4.0 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Telephone Box
BCT · Willisham
- 0.2 miles
Telephone Box
BCT · Willisham
- 0.5 miles
The Tye
BCT · Barking Tye
- 0.5 miles
The Tye
BCT · Barking Tye
- 0.8 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Ringshall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mid Suffolk 011A, 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
20,443 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
9 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.