Bury St Edmunds

What is it like to live in Bury St Edmunds?

Homes sold for a typical £280,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 1,006 of the 1,124 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 242 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 72 of its 1,249 postcodes. It has 11 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Bury St Edmunds, 700 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Bury St Edmunds?

Homes in Bury St Edmunds sold for a typical £280,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 602 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £287,300 from 756 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £420,000 147 sales
• Semi-detached £280,000 168 sales
• Terraced £259,000 203 sales
• Flat or maisonette £175,000 84 sales

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

Across the whole IP33 district, Bury St Edmunds's main postcode district: a typical £282,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Bury St Edmunds: 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 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Bury St Edmunds?

105 of the 1,249 postcodes now in use in Bury St Edmunds came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 68 of the 756 homes sold in Bury St Edmunds were newly built (9%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the IP33 district, 12%.

The newest postcodes

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

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.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Bury St Edmunds?

Ofcom reports on 1,124 of the 1,249 postcodes in Bury St Edmunds. At 1,006 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Bury St Edmunds at risk of flooding?

72 of the 1,249 postcodes in Bury St Edmunds 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 242 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Bury St Edmunds?

The open schools at the postcodes in Bury St Edmunds (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Bury St Edmunds?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Bury St Edmunds is Bury St Edmunds Rail Station, 700 m away in a straight line.

• Bury St Edmunds Rail Station Railway station 700 mWalk
• Thurston Rail Station Railway station 6.6 kmDrive
• Elmswell Rail Station Railway station 13.7 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Bury St Edmunds?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Bury St Edmunds, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• The Guildhall and Barrow Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01284 701601 300 mWalk
• Swan Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01284 770440 400 mWalk
• Angel Hill Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01284 753008 400 mWalk
• Victoria Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01284 725550 600 mWalk
• Mount Farm Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01284 769643 2.1 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Bury St Edmunds safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 2,100 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Bury St Edmunds 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

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: burglary 48, vehicle crime 46, possession of weapons 36, theft from the person 23, robbery 21, bicycle theft 19.

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 each way is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Bury St Edmunds?

District, borough or city council

West Suffolk

County council

Suffolk

Parliamentary constituencies

Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket (1,247) and West Suffolk (2)

Police force area

Suffolk

Region

East of England

Country

England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.