IP16 postcode district: Leiston and around, Suffolk

IP16 is a postcode district in Suffolk, with 324 postcodes in use in 1 sector. It has postcodes in Leiston and Aldeburgh. Its council is East Suffolk.

Postcodes in use: 324
Sectors: 1
Council: East Suffolk
Places: 2 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in IP16, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 72
Some can get gigabit: 51
Every home and business can get gigabit: 190
Ofcom gives no figure: 11
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 324 postcodes in IP16 that ONS places, 72 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 51 have some that can, 190 can all get it and 11 have no Ofcom figure.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 160 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.2045, longitude 1.5835. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; gigabit: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

Postcodes without gigabit

72 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

IP16 4AP IP16 4AR IP16 4AS IP16 4BY IP16 4DX IP16 4EG IP16 4EH IP16 4EQ IP16 4FD IP16 4FF IP16 4FJ IP16 4FL

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

9 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. IP16 4FF, is the one nearest the middle of them.
5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. IP16 4RU, is the one nearest the middle of them.
5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. IP16 4SW, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in IP16?

Ofcom reports on 313 of the 324 postcodes in IP16. At 190 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 5 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit190 of 313

Postcodes where every home can get superfast281 of 313

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband5 of 313

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is IP16 at risk of flooding?

35 of the 324 postcodes in IP16 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 22 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 35 of 324 postcodes High: 4Medium: 18Low: 15Very low: 112

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in IP16?

Homes in IP16 sold for a typical £260,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 60 sales, up 13% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£260,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£230,000 12 months to August 2025

▲ up 13% on the 12 months before

Detached £390,000 19 sales
Semi-detached £250,000 23 sales
Terraced £192,500 14 sales
Flat or maisonette 4 sales, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it