Ixworth
Ixworth is covered by postcode district IP31. It is in the West Suffolk council area, Suffolk.
Every postcode in Ixworth, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 0
- At medium risk at worst: 1
- At low risk at worst: 3
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 48
Of the 52 postcodes in Ixworth that ONS places, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 3 are at low risk at worst and 48 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 52.2991, longitude 0.8342. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
The postcodes at medium risk at worst
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Ixworth?
Homes sold for a typical £317,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 31 of the 51 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1 home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 4 of its 52 postcodes. It has 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Thurston, 5.7 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
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 Ixworth?
Homes in Ixworth sold for a typical £317,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 24 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £359,000 from 22 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.
- Detached £388,000 15 sales
- Semi-detached £282,500 6 sales
- Terraced 3 sales, too few to price
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole IP31 district, Ixworth's main postcode district: a typical £346,250.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Ixworth: 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 Ixworth?
None of the 52 postcodes now in use in Ixworth came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 22 homes sold in Ixworth were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the IP31 district, 13%.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Ixworth | Across the IP31 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 24 (0%) | 8 of 238 (3%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 0 of 22 (0%) | 43 of 343 (13%) |
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 Ixworth?
Ofcom reports on 51 of the 52 postcodes in Ixworth. At 31 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.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Ixworth at risk of flooding?
4 of the 52 postcodes in Ixworth 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 1 home or business 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 Ixworth?
The open schools at the postcodes in Ixworth. 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.
Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Ixworth?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Ixworth is Thurston Rail Station, 5.7 km away in a straight line.
- Thurston Rail Station Railway station 5.7 kmDrive
- Elmswell Rail Station Railway station 8.6 kmDrive
- Bury St Edmunds Rail Station Railway station 9.6 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 Ixworth?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Ixworth. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Ixworth Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2026 · Phone 01359 230252 500 mWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Ixworth safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 86 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Ixworth 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
- 7 September 2025
- 12 October 2025
- 7 November 2025
- 8 December 2025
- 6 January 2026
- 6 February 2026
- 10 March 2026
- 6 April 2026
- 6 May 2026
- 4 June 2026
- 8 July 2026
- 6 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: theft from the person 1, drugs 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 postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Ixworth?
- District, borough or city council
- West Suffolk
- County council
- Suffolk
- Parliamentary constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
- Police force area
- Suffolk
- Region
- East of England
- Country
- England
- MP
- Dr Peter Prinsley (Labour)
All 52 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.
Moving to Ixworth
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell West Suffolk about council tax Council tax, on westsuffolk.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Ixworth
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Ixworth postcodes
52 postcodes in use in Ixworth, by district:
That district is in the IP postcode area.
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Places near Ixworth
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Ixworth's £317,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Ixworth
- What is the postcode for Ixworth?
- Postcode district IP31, with 52 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Ixworth in?
- West Suffolk, with Suffolk as its county council. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Ixworth?
- Dr Peter Prinsley (Labour), for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Ixworth?
- A typical £317,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 24 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Ixworth?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Ixworth Church of England Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Ixworth High School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Ixworth have a railway station?
- The nearest is Thurston station, 5.7 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Ixworth?
- Ofcom reports on 51 of the 52 postcodes in Ixworth. At 31 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Ixworth at risk of flooding?
- 4 of the 52 postcodes in Ixworth 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 1 home or business in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Ixworth?
- None of the 52 postcodes now in use in Ixworth came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 22 homes sold in Ixworth were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the IP31 district, 13%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
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