Southwold

Southwold is covered by postcode district IP18. It is in the East Suffolk council area, Suffolk.

Typical price £490,000 Homes sold in Southwold, last 12 months. ▼ 24.6% on the year before Gigabit broadband 98 of 129 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 22 of 129 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 27 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Southwold, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Southwold, by flood risk Of the 129 postcodes in Southwold that ONS places, 4 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 8 are at low risk at worst, 8 are at very low risk only and 107 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Southwold. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. IP18 6AA: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AB: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AD: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AE: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AF: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AG: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AH: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AJ: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AL: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AN: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AP: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AQ: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AR: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AS: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AT: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AU: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AW: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AX: not on the flood risk listIP18 6AY: not on the flood risk listIP18 6BA: not on the flood risk listIP18 6BD: not on the flood risk listIP18 6BF: not on the flood risk listIP18 6BP: not on the flood risk listIP18 6BS: not on the flood risk listIP18 6BT: not on the flood risk listIP18 6BU: not on the flood risk listIP18 6BW: not on the flood risk listIP18 6BX: not on the flood risk listIP18 6BY: not on the flood risk listIP18 6BZ: not on the flood risk listIP18 6DA: not on the flood risk listIP18 6DB: not on the flood risk listIP18 6DD: not on the flood risk listIP18 6DE: not on the flood risk listIP18 6DJ: not on the flood risk listIP18 6DL: not on the flood risk listIP18 6DN: not on the flood risk listIP18 6DP: not on the flood risk listIP18 6DQ: not on the flood risk listIP18 6DS: not on the flood risk listIP18 6DX: not on the flood risk listIP18 6DZ: not on the flood risk listIP18 6EA: not on the flood risk listIP18 6ED: not on the flood risk listIP18 6EE: not on the flood risk listIP18 6EF: not on the flood risk listIP18 6EG: not on the flood risk listIP18 6EH: not on the flood risk listIP18 6EJ: not on the flood risk listIP18 6EN: not on the flood risk listIP18 6EP: not on the flood risk listIP18 6EQ: not on the flood risk listIP18 6ER: not on the flood risk listIP18 6ES: not on the flood risk listIP18 6ET: not on the flood risk listIP18 6EU: not on the flood risk listIP18 6EW: not on the flood risk listIP18 6EX: not on the flood risk listIP18 6EZ: not on the flood risk listIP18 6FA: not on the flood risk listIP18 6FH: not on the flood risk listIP18 6GB: not on the flood risk listIP18 6GH: not on the flood risk listIP18 6GL: not on the flood risk listIP18 6HA: not on the flood risk listIP18 6HB: not on the flood risk listIP18 6HD: not on the flood risk listIP18 6HF: not on the flood risk listIP18 6HL: not on the flood risk listIP18 6HN: not on the flood risk listIP18 6HP: not on the flood risk listIP18 6HS: not on the flood risk listIP18 6HW: not on the flood risk listIP18 6HZ: not on the flood risk listIP18 6JA: not on the flood risk listIP18 6JB: not on the flood risk listIP18 6JD: not on the flood risk listIP18 6JE: not on the flood risk listIP18 6JF: not on the flood risk listIP18 6JG: not on the flood risk listIP18 6JH: not on the flood risk listIP18 6JJ: not on the flood risk listIP18 6JL: not on the flood risk listIP18 6JN: not on the flood risk listIP18 6JP: not on the flood risk listIP18 6JQ: not on the flood risk listIP18 6JR: not on the flood risk listIP18 6JS: not on the flood risk listIP18 6JT: not on the flood risk listIP18 6JU: not on the flood risk listIP18 6JW: not on the flood risk listIP18 6LA: not on the flood risk listIP18 6LB: not on the flood risk listIP18 6LD: not on the flood risk listIP18 6LE: not on the flood risk listIP18 6LF: not on the flood risk listIP18 6LG: not on the flood risk listIP18 6LH: not on the flood risk listIP18 6LJ: not on the flood risk listIP18 6LL: not on the flood risk listIP18 6LN: not on the flood risk listIP18 6LQ: not on the flood risk listIP18 6LR: not on the flood risk listIP18 6LS: not on the flood risk listIP18 6LW: not on the flood risk listIP18 6LX: not on the flood risk listIP18 6LY: not on the flood risk listIP18 6BG: very low flood risk onlyIP18 6BJ: very low flood risk onlyIP18 6BL: very low flood risk onlyIP18 6BQ: very low flood risk onlyIP18 6DH: very low flood risk onlyIP18 6DR: very low flood risk onlyIP18 6DU: very low flood risk onlyIP18 6HR: very low flood risk onlyIP18 6BB: low flood risk at worstIP18 6BE: low flood risk at worstIP18 6EL: low flood risk at worstIP18 6HE: low flood risk at worstIP18 6HG: low flood risk at worstIP18 6HJ: low flood risk at worstIP18 6LP: low flood risk at worstIP18 6LU: low flood risk at worstIP18 6AZ: medium flood risk at worstIP18 6BH: medium flood risk at worstIP18 6BN: high flood riskIP18 6EY: high flood riskIP18 6HQ: high flood riskIP18 6LT: high flood risk Southwold Map of every postcode in Southwold, by flood risk Of the 129 postcodes in Southwold that ONS places, 4 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 8 are at low risk at worst, 8 are at very low risk only and 107 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Southwold. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Southwold
  • A home or business at high risk: 4
  • At medium risk at worst: 2
  • At low risk at worst: 8
  • At very low risk only: 8
  • Not on the at-risk list: 107

Of the 129 postcodes in Southwold that ONS places, 4 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 8 are at low risk at worst, 8 are at very low risk only and 107 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 52.3278, longitude 1.6785. 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.

IP18 6HQ21 at high riskIP18 6BN1 at high riskIP18 6EY1 at high riskIP18 6LT1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Southwold?

Homes sold for a typical £490,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 24.6% on the 12 months before. At 98 of the 129 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 27 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 22 of its 129 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Sole Bay H/C, 1.3 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Brampton (Suffolk), 11.8 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 Southwold?

Homes in Southwold sold for a typical £490,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 22 sales, down 24.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£490,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£650,000
12 months to August 2026
£490,000

▼ down 24.6% on the 12 months before

Detached 4 sales, too few to price
Semi-detached 3 sales, too few to price
Terraced£620,000 7 sales
Flat or maisonette£268,000 8 sales

Across the whole IP18 district, Southwold's main postcode district: a typical £430,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Southwold: 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 Southwold?

1 of the 129 postcodes now in use in Southwold came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 33 homes sold in Southwold were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the IP18 district, 1%.

The newest postcodes

IP18 6FHsince July 2024

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 SouthwoldAcross the IP18 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 22 (0%) 2 of 70 (3%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 33 (0%) 1 of 90 (1%)

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 Southwold?

Ofcom reports on 129 of the 129 postcodes in Southwold. At 98 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit98 of 129
Postcodes where every home can get superfast128 of 129

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 Southwold at risk of flooding?

22 of the 129 postcodes in Southwold 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 27 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 22 of 129 postcodes High: 24Medium: 3Low: 37Very low: 79

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 Southwold?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Southwold. 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 Southwold?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Southwold is Brampton (Suffolk) Rail Station, 11.8 km away in a straight line.

  • Brampton (Suffolk) Rail Station Railway station 11.8 kmDrive
  • Halesworth Rail Station Railway station 11.9 kmDrive
  • Darsham Rail Station Railway station 12.2 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 Southwold?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Southwold. 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 Southwold safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 140 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Southwold 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. 7 September 2025
  2. 6 October 2025
  3. 7 November 2025
  4. 7 December 2025
  5. 4 January 2026
  6. 15 February 2026
  7. 17 March 2026
  8. 13 April 2026
  9. 12 May 2026
  10. 9 June 2026
  11. 25 July 2026
  12. 18 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences50 reports
Criminal damage and arson22 reports
Anti-social behaviour21 reports
Public order17 reports
Other theft9 reports
Shoplifting6 reports
Bicycle theft6 reports
Burglary4 reports

Also: other crime 2, vehicle crime 1, 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 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 Southwold?

District, borough or city council
East Suffolk
County council
Suffolk
Parliamentary constituency
Suffolk Coastal
Police force area
Suffolk
Region
East of England
Country
England
MP
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Labour)

All 129 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 Southwold

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

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Southwold postcodes

129 postcodes in use in Southwold, by district:

IP18 postcode district,129 postcodes

That district is in the IP postcode area.

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Places near Southwold

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Southwold's £490,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Reydon1.4 km, £335,000Kessingland10.5 km, £210,000Halesworth12.0 km, £260,000Worlingham14.6 km, £312,500Leiston15.3 km, £258,500Beccles15.9 km, £239,000Lowestoft16.6 km, £225,000Saxmundham18.0 km, £315,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Southwold

What is it like to live in Southwold?
Homes sold for a typical £490,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 24.6% on the 12 months before. At 98 of the 129 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 27 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 22 of its 129 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Sole Bay H/C, 1.3 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Brampton (Suffolk), 11.8 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 Southwold?
Southwold is covered by postcode district IP18, across 129 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Southwold in?
Southwold is in the East Suffolk council area, and Suffolk is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Southwold?
Southwold is in the Suffolk Coastal parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Southwold?
Homes in Southwold sold for a typical £490,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 22 sales, down 24.6% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Southwold?
In Southwold, primary schools at its postcodes include Southwold Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Saint Felix School, 1.8 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Southwold have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Southwold is Brampton (Suffolk), 11.8 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Southwold?
Ofcom reports on 129 of the 129 postcodes in Southwold. At 98 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Southwold at risk of flooding?
22 of the 129 postcodes in Southwold 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 27 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 Southwold?
1 of the 129 postcodes now in use in Southwold came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 33 homes sold in Southwold were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the IP18 district, 1%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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