# IP3

Postcode district covering Ipswich, Rose Hill and Broke Hall, in Ipswich.

IP3 is a postcode district covering Ipswich, Rose Hill and Broke Hall, in Ipswich. Median sale price £245,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 81.7 per 1,000 people.

Postcode district. Code IP3. In: [Postcodes](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode) › [IP](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip)

Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an IP3 postcode. [How census figures are added up](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/population)

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £245,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in IP3 was £245,000 in 2025. Joint 705th cheapest of 2,235. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip3#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 35,850** (2021). IP3 had 35,850 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 602nd most populated of 2,756. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip3#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 100%** (2022). About 100% of people in IP3 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip3#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 97.5%** (January 2026). In IP3, 97.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip3#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas#place=IP3) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 100% of people in IP3 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
- [Sales per year by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year#place=IP3) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 450 homes were sold in IP3 in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime#place=IP3) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for IP3.
- [Population by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population#place=IP3) (Census 2021, England and Wales): IP3 had 35,850 usual residents at the census.

## How IP3 compares

Each postcode district against every other postcode district the measure covers.

| Measure | IP3 | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £245,000 | 6th cheapest | 33 postcode districts, IP · 2025 |
| Population | 35,850 | 4th most populated | 33 postcode districts, IP · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 100% | most people in radon Affected Areas | 33 postcode districts, IP · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 97.5% | joint 2nd highest | 33 postcode districts, IP · Jan 2026 |

## Is IP3 safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in IP3 at a rate of 81.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 59.5 per 1,000 people across the IP postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 232 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in IP3.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,064), shoplifting (541) and other crime (460).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in IP3 was 75.8 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.

## Deprivation in IP3, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so IP3 has no single figure. Of its 21 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in IP3

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [East Suffolk 026A](https://openindex.co.uk/east-suffolk/neighbourhood/e01030196) | 1,562 | 64.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| [Ipswich 008D](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01030005) | 2,930 | 49.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.4% |
| [Ipswich 009D](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01029966) | 1,647 | 32.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| [Ipswich 009E](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01029967) | 1,325 | 13.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| [Ipswich 011B](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01029990) | 1,544 | 59.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.4% |
| [Ipswich 011C](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01029991) | 1,589 | 30.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.5% |
| [Ipswich 011D](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01029992) | 1,328 | 47.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| [Ipswich 011E](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01033123) | 1,758 | 163.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.0% |
| [Ipswich 011F](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01033126) | 1,899 | 113.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 84.9% |
| [Ipswich 014B](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01029994) | 1,647 | 77.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| [Ipswich 014C](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01029995) | 1,684 | 100.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| [Ipswich 014D](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01029996) | 1,680 | 70.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| [Ipswich 014E](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01033127) | 1,685 | 143.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.5% |
| [Ipswich 014F](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01033128) | 1,172 | 87.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.3% |
| [Ipswich 014G](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01033131) | 1,785 | 96.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| [Ipswich 016A](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01029978) | 1,279 | 75.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| [Ipswich 016B](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01029979) | 1,632 | 117.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| [Ipswich 016C](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01029980) | 1,649 | 118.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.0% |
| [Ipswich 016D](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01029981) | 1,214 | 73.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Ipswich 016E](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01029982) | 1,481 | 82.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| [Ipswich 016F](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/neighbourhood/e01029983) | 1,592 | 93.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |

## Your MP

- [Ipswich](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/ipswich): Jack Abbott (Labour (Co-op)), MP since July 2024. 92% of the people here.
- [Suffolk Coastal](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/suffolk-coastal): Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Labour), MP since July 2024. 6.3% of the people here.
- [Central Suffolk and North Ipswich](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/central-suffolk-and-north-ipswich): Patrick Spencer (Conservative), MP since July 2024. 2.1% of the people here.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Middle areas in IP3

[Gainsborough, Greenwich & Orwell](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/gainsborough-greenwich-and-orwell), [Holywells](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/holywells), [Priory Heath](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich/priory-heath)

## Postcode sectors in IP3

[IP3 0 (214 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip3-0), [IP3 8 (272 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip3-8), [IP3 9 (279 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip3-9)

## Council

[Ipswich](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich)

## Towns in IP3

[Ipswich](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich)

## Postcode districts next to IP3

[IP4](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip4), [IP9](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip9), [IP10](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip10)

## Nearest rail stations

[Derby Road (Ipswich) (1.5 km from the middle)](https://openindex.co.uk/map/rail-stations#around=1.1826,52.0506), [Ipswich (3.4 km from the middle)](https://openindex.co.uk/map/rail-stations#around=1.1444,52.0506), [Westerfield (5.0 km from the middle)](https://openindex.co.uk/map/rail-stations#around=1.1659,52.0810)

## More in the IP postcode area

[All IP postcode districts](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip), [Every UK postcode area](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode)

## IP3 in brief

IP3 is a postcode district covering Ipswich, Rose Hill and Broke Hall, in Ipswich.
About 36,156 people lived in IP3 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £245,000 in 2025 across 450 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 81.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in IP3 was £245,000 in 2025.
IP3 had 35,850 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in IP3 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In IP3, 97.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Postcode district
- Code: IP3
- Postcode area: [IP](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip)
- Constituency: [Ipswich †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/ipswich)
- Council: [Ipswich †](https://openindex.co.uk/ipswich)
- Area: 14.49 km²
- People, mid-2024: 36,156*
- Neighbourhoods: 21
- Output areas: 110

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency, council, region and nation this postcode district mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[IP10](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip10), [IP4](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip4), [IP9](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip9)

## Latest updates for IP3

- August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026.
- September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026.
- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/IP3

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip3, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip3#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.11. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ip3