Bacton

Bacton is covered by postcode district IP14. It is in the Mid Suffolk council area, Suffolk.

ONS publishes this built-up area as Bacton (Mid Suffolk).

Typical price £325,000 Homes sold in Bacton, last 12 months. ▼ 2% on the year before Gigabit broadband 9 of 63 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 2 of 63 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Bacton, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Bacton, by flood risk Of the 63 postcodes in Bacton that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 61 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Bacton. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. IP14 4EP: not on the flood risk listIP14 4FY: not on the flood risk listIP14 4FZ: not on the flood risk listIP14 4GA: not on the flood risk listIP14 4GB: not on the flood risk listIP14 4GD: not on the flood risk listIP14 4GG: not on the flood risk listIP14 4GL: not on the flood risk listIP14 4GU: not on the flood risk listIP14 4HR: not on the flood risk listIP14 4HS: not on the flood risk listIP14 4JR: not on the flood risk listIP14 4JY: not on the flood risk listIP14 4LF: not on the flood risk listIP14 4LG: not on the flood risk listIP14 4LJ: not on the flood risk listIP14 4LL: not on the flood risk listIP14 4LN: not on the flood risk listIP14 4LP: not on the flood risk listIP14 4LQ: not on the flood risk listIP14 4LR: not on the flood risk listIP14 4LS: not on the flood risk listIP14 4LT: not on the flood risk listIP14 4LU: not on the flood risk listIP14 4LW: not on the flood risk listIP14 4LX: not on the flood risk listIP14 4LY: not on the flood risk listIP14 4LZ: not on the flood risk listIP14 4NA: not on the flood risk listIP14 4NB: not on the flood risk listIP14 4ND: not on the flood risk listIP14 4NE: not on the flood risk listIP14 4NF: not on the flood risk listIP14 4NL: not on the flood risk listIP14 4NN: not on the flood risk listIP14 4NR: not on the flood risk listIP14 4NS: not on the flood risk listIP14 4NT: not on the flood risk listIP14 4NW: not on the flood risk listIP14 4NX: not on the flood risk listIP14 4NY: not on the flood risk listIP14 4PQ: not on the flood risk listIP14 4QH: not on the flood risk listIP14 4QJ: not on the flood risk listIP14 4QL: not on the flood risk listIP14 4QN: not on the flood risk listIP14 4QP: not on the flood risk listIP14 4QQ: not on the flood risk listIP14 4QR: not on the flood risk listIP14 4QS: not on the flood risk listIP14 4QW: not on the flood risk listIP14 4QZ: not on the flood risk listIP14 4RA: not on the flood risk listIP14 4RB: not on the flood risk listIP14 4RG: not on the flood risk listIP14 4RT: not on the flood risk listIP14 4RY: not on the flood risk listIP14 4SA: not on the flood risk listIP14 4UA: not on the flood risk listIP14 4UB: not on the flood risk listIP14 4UH: not on the flood risk listIP14 4RW: low flood risk at worstIP14 4RD: high flood risk Bacton Map of every postcode in Bacton, by flood risk Of the 63 postcodes in Bacton that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 61 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Bacton. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Bacton
  • A home or business at high risk: 1
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 1
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 61

Of the 63 postcodes in Bacton that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 61 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

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. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.2645, longitude 1.0164. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 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

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

IP14 4RD3 at high risk

What is it like to live in Bacton?

Homes sold for a typical £325,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2% on the 12 months before. At 9 of the 63 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2 of its 63 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Mendlesham Medical Group, 4.7 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Elmswell, 7.7 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Bacton?

Homes in Bacton sold for a typical £325,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 14 sales, down 2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£325,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£331,500
12 months to August 2026
£325,000

▼ down 2% on the 12 months before

Detached£465,000 9 sales
Semi-detached 4 sales, too few to price
Terraced 1 sale, too few to price

Across the whole IP14 district, Bacton's main postcode district: a typical £280,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Bacton: 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

Are new homes being built in Bacton?

8 of the 63 postcodes now in use in Bacton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 33 of the 56 homes sold in Bacton were newly built (59%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the IP14 district, 27%.

The newest postcodes

IP14 4GLsince November 2023IP14 4GDsince September 2023IP14 4GUsince September 2023IP14 4GBsince June 2023IP14 4FZsince April 2023IP14 4GAsince February 2023

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn BactonAcross the IP14 district
The 12 months to August 2026 1 of 14 (7%) 41 of 593 (7%)
The 12 months to August 2025 33 of 56 (59%) 253 of 921 (27%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Bacton?

Ofcom reports on 63 of the 63 postcodes in Bacton. At 9 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit9 of 63
Postcodes where every home can get superfast59 of 63

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.

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

Is Bacton at risk of flooding?

2 of the 63 postcodes in Bacton 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 3 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 2 of 63 postcodes High: 3Low: 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

Which schools are in Bacton?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Bacton. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Bacton?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Bacton is Elmswell Rail Station, 7.7 km away in a straight line.

  • Elmswell Rail Station Railway station 7.7 kmDrive
  • Stowmarket Rail Station Railway station 8.4 kmDrive
  • Needham Market Rail Station Railway station 12.7 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Bacton?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Bacton. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Bacton safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 50 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Bacton over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 2 September 2025
  2. 6 October 2025
  3. 6 November 2025
  4. 6 December 2025
  5. 3 January 2026
  6. 6 February 2026
  7. 1 March 2026
  8. 2 April 2026
  9. 5 May 2026
  10. 4 June 2026
  11. 4 July 2026
  12. 5 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences21 reports
Public order6 reports
Shoplifting5 reports
Vehicle crime4 reports
Other theft4 reports
Other crime3 reports
Anti-social behaviour2 reports
Criminal damage and arson2 reports

Also: burglary 2, possession of weapons 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Bacton?

District, borough or city council
Mid Suffolk
County council
Suffolk
Parliamentary constituency
Waveney Valley
Police force area
Suffolk
Region
East of England
Country
England
MP
Adrian Ramsay (Green Party)

All 63 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

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

Moving to Bacton

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.

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Bacton postcodes

63 postcodes in use in Bacton, by district:

IP14 postcode district,63 postcodes

That district is in the IP postcode area.

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Places near Bacton

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Bacton's £325,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Stowupland7.2 km, £280,000Elmswell7.6 km, £310,000Botesdale and Rickinghall8.6 km, £375,000Stowmarket8.7 km, £260,000Woolpit9.7 km, £360,000Eye, Mid Suffolk10.9 km, £305,000Stanton11.2 km, £271,500Debenham12.0 km, £370,500 All places A to Z

Questions about Bacton

What is it like to live in Bacton?
Homes sold for a typical £325,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2% on the 12 months before. At 9 of the 63 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2 of its 63 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Mendlesham Medical Group, 4.7 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Elmswell, 7.7 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Bacton?
Bacton is covered by postcode district IP14, across 63 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Bacton in?
Bacton is in the Mid Suffolk council area, and Suffolk is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Bacton?
Bacton is in the Waveney Valley parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Adrian Ramsay (Green Party), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Bacton?
Homes in Bacton sold for a typical £325,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 14 sales, down 2% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Bacton?
In Bacton, primary schools at its postcodes include Bacton Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Stowupland High School, 7.4 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Bacton have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Bacton is Elmswell, 7.7 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Bacton?
Ofcom reports on 63 of the 63 postcodes in Bacton. At 9 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Bacton at risk of flooding?
2 of the 63 postcodes in Bacton 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 3 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Bacton?
8 of the 63 postcodes now in use in Bacton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 33 of the 56 homes sold in Bacton were newly built (59%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the IP14 district, 27%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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