IP8 postcode district: Ipswich and around, Suffolk

IP8 is a postcode district in Suffolk, with 485 postcodes in use in 2 sectors. It has postcodes in Ipswich, Bramford and Great Blakenham. It is split between 3 councils: Babergh (265 postcodes), Mid Suffolk (218) and Ipswich (2).

Postcodes in use: 485
Sectors: 2
Councils: 3 councils
Places: 3 places

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

Every postcode in IP8, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 190
Some can get gigabit: 76
Every home and business can get gigabit: 206
Ofcom gives no figure: 13
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 485 postcodes in IP8 that ONS places, 190 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 76 have some that can, 206 can all get it and 13 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 220 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 52.0631, longitude 1.0797. 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

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

IP8 3AN IP8 3AT IP8 3AU IP8 3AX IP8 3BJ IP8 3BL IP8 3BN IP8 3BP IP8 3BS IP8 3BU IP8 3BW IP8 3DD

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

33 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. IP8 4HP, is the one nearest the middle of them.
27 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. IP8 4PD, is the one nearest the middle of them.
8 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. IP8 3DU, is the one nearest the middle of them.
7 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. IP8 4BJ, is the one nearest the middle of them.
7 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. IP8 4RA, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in IP8?

Ofcom reports on 472 of the 485 postcodes in IP8. At 206 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit206 of 472

Postcodes where every home can get superfast407 of 472

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 IP8 at risk of flooding?

41 of the 485 postcodes in IP8 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 72 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 41 of 485 postcodes High: 27Medium: 45Low: 55Very low: 63

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 IP8?

Homes in IP8 sold for a typical £325,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 151 sales, up 1.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£325,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£320,000 12 months to August 2025

▲ up 1.6% on the 12 months before

Detached £409,995 73 sales
Semi-detached £275,000 44 sales
Terraced £237,500 34 sales

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