Property market
The five-year median is £710,000 from 1 recorded sale in IP9 1HY. 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.
IP9 1HY
Orwell · Babergh · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP9 1HY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP9
- Postcode sector
- IP9 1
- Latitude
- 51.992082
- Longitude
- 1.209015
- British National Grid easting
- 620,413
- British National Grid northing
- 237,487
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Babergh · E07000200
- Electoral ward
- Orwell · E05012581
- Parish or community
- E04009081
- Westminster constituency
- South Suffolk · E14001494
- Output area
- E00152217
- Lower layer super output area
- Babergh 011B · E01029873
- Middle layer super output area
- Babergh 011 · E02006237
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 IP9
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Rectory Field, Chelmondiston, Ipswich, IP9 1HY | 28 February 2022 | £710,000 |
| Briarley Cottage, Rectory Field, Chelmondiston, Ipswich, IP9 1HY | 5 January 2021 | £650,000 |
| 6, Rectory Field, Chelmondiston, Ipswich, IP9 1HY | 15 August 2019 | £675,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 2
- 228 m
Chelmondiston Church of England Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.5 km
Ipswich High School
Other independent school
- 2.5 km
Orwell Park School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 37
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 12
- Criminal damage and arson 9
- Other theft 4
- Public order 4
- Burglary 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 25
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- IP9 1 residents
- 4,101
12 female, 13 male
Age bands in IP9 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.3%
549 residents
375 residents
742 residents
1,320 residents
1,123 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP9 1 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+
- 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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
THE HOLBROOK AND SHOTLEY PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, THE STREET, HOLBROOK, IPSWICH, IP9 2QS
ODS code D83020
3.6 km
RAVENSWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
24 HENING AVENUE, IPSWICH, IP3 9QJ
ODS code Y01794
4.3 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
Red Lion
BCT · Chelmondiston
- 0.2 miles
Red Lion
BCT · Chelmondiston
- 0.2 miles
Forresters Arms
BCT · Chelmondiston
- 0.2 miles
Forresters Arms
BCT · Chelmondiston
- 0.2 miles
Woodlands
BCT · Chelmondiston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Babergh 011B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,252 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
12 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 2 secondary schools. Chelmondiston Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 228 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
37 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 12 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.