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IP16 crime rate and statistics
The IP16 postcode district, in the IP (Ipswich) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 443 street-crime records for IP16 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 22.7% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 64.9 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 64.8 for Suffolk Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
443
Latest month (August 2026)
36
Year-on-year
+22.7%
Month-by-month totals
590
44
Sep
34
Oct
22
Nov
30
Dec
28
Jan
34
Feb
36
Mar
30
Apr
48
May
59
Jun
42
Jul
36
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
44
October 2025
34
November 2025
22
December 2025
30
January 2026
28
February 2026
34
March 2026
36
April 2026
30
May 2026
48
June 2026
59
July 2026
42
August 2026
36
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
IP16
64.9
Suffolk Constabulary
64.8
443 records and 6,827 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Top crime categories
Share of IP16 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences51.9%
230 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Criminal damage and arson11.3%
50 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Anti-social behaviour8.1%
36 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Other theft6.5%
29 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Shoplifting5.0%
22 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Public order5.0%
22 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Burglary2.7%
12 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Vehicle crime2.3%
10 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Where records cluster in IP16
Records by part of IP16: the south 121, the centre 91, the south-east 84, the west 72, the north 23, the north-west 17, the east 10, the south-west 9.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 290 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of IP16's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and IP16's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of IP16 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore IP16 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for IP16 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
498
2022
533
2023
422
2024
414
2025
351
2026 (part year)
313
Is IP16 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for IP16 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 37 records a month. The busiest month was June 2026, with 59.
Records here changed by +22.7% on the 12 months before, against +2.9% across the Suffolk Constabulary area over the same months. With 443 records a year, a change of a few percent can be chance.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 51.9% of records, against 35.5% across England and Wales over the same months.
The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in IP16 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a district by its nearest postcode. Counts near district boundaries are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Outcome labels in the source data are not court results or conviction rates.
Covers 100.0% of the 6,827 Census 2021 residents of IP16.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
0%2
24%3
51%4
13%5
0%6
0%7
12%8
0%9
0%10
Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.
Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.
About IP16 beyond crime
Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the
methodology page.
House prices
Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.
Year
All sales
2026 (part year)
£260,000 (47)
2025
£248,750 (100)
2024
£233,000 (99)
2023
£256,500 (96)
2022
£250,000 (179)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£385,000 (13)
£250,000 (23)
£210,000 (9)
– (2)
2025
£382,500 (28)
£228,580 (31)
£230,000 (33)
£125,625 (8)
2024
£352,500 (24)
£216,250 (42)
£193,000 (28)
£150,000 (5)
2023
£430,000 (29)
£230,000 (32)
£192,500 (29)
£152,500 (6)
2022
£375,000 (69)
£236,000 (51)
£197,500 (42)
£165,000 (17)
Schools and colleges
4 open establishments with a postcode in IP16, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.
Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.
Highest band
Postcodes
High
4
Medium
6
Low
5
Very low
20
Broadband
Share of the 312 postcodes in IP16 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.
Service
Every premises
Some premises
Gigabit
57.1%
76.3%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
89.7%
94.6%
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