IP29 postcode district: Bury St Edmunds and around, Suffolk

IP29 is a postcode district in Suffolk, with 408 postcodes in use in 2 sectors. It has postcodes in Bury St Edmunds. It is split between 2 councils: West Suffolk (298 postcodes) and Babergh (110).

Postcodes in use: 408
Sectors: 2
Councils: 2 councils
Places: Bury St Edmunds

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

Every postcode in IP29, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 101
Some can get gigabit: 81
Every home and business can get gigabit: 222
Ofcom gives no figure: 4
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 408 postcodes in IP29 that ONS places, 101 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 81 have some that can, 222 can all get it and 4 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 420 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 52.1908, longitude 0.6590. 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

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

IP29 4AA IP29 4AF IP29 4AJ IP29 4AL IP29 4AN IP29 4AP IP29 4AR IP29 4AS IP29 4AT IP29 4AX IP29 4AZ IP29 4BA

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

18 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. IP29 4PU, is the one nearest the middle of them.
11 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. IP29 4AP, is the one nearest the middle of them.
9 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. IP29 4QF, is the one nearest the middle of them.
8 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. IP29 5HS, is the one nearest the middle of them.
5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. IP29 5RW, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in IP29?

Ofcom reports on 404 of the 408 postcodes in IP29. At 222 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 12 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit222 of 404

Postcodes where every home can get superfast341 of 404

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband12 of 404

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 IP29 at risk of flooding?

23 of the 408 postcodes in IP29 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 51 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 23 of 408 postcodes High: 43Medium: 8Low: 23Very low: 2

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 IP29?

Homes in IP29 sold for a typical £411,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 112 sales, down 2.1% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£411,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£420,000 12 months to August 2025

▼ down 2.1% on the 12 months before

Detached £465,000 58 sales
Semi-detached £380,000 37 sales
Terraced £269,750 16 sales
Flat or maisonette 1 sale, 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