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IP18 crime rate and statistics
The IP18 postcode district, in the IP (Ipswich) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 191 street-crime records for IP18 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 16.6% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 49.9 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
191
Latest month (August 2026)
22
Year-on-year
-16.6%
Month-by-month totals
260
10
Sep
10
Oct
9
Nov
12
Dec
8
Jan
21
Feb
21
Mar
20
Apr
14
May
18
Jun
26
Jul
22
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
10
October 2025
10
November 2025
9
December 2025
12
January 2026
8
February 2026
21
March 2026
21
April 2026
20
May 2026
14
June 2026
18
July 2026
26
August 2026
22
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.
IP18
49.9
Suffolk Constabulary
64.8
191 records and 3,827 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 IP18 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 offences35.1%
67 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Criminal damage and arson14.7%
28 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Anti-social behaviour12.6%
24 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Public order9.4%
18 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Other theft7.3%
14 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Burglary4.7%
9 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Shoplifting4.2%
8 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Bicycle theft3.7%
7 records · England and Wales 0.9%
Where records cluster in IP18
Records by part of IP18: the east 68, the north-east 62, the south-east 29, the south 17, the centre 5, the north 3, the north-west 1.
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 IP18's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and IP18'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 IP18 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore IP18 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for IP18 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
205
2022
172
2023
159
2024
174
2025
212
2026 (part year)
150
Is IP18 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for IP18 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 16 records a month. The busiest month was July 2026, with 26.
Records here changed by -16.6% on the 12 months before, against +2.9% across the Suffolk Constabulary area over the same months. With 191 records a year, a change of a few percent can be chance.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 35.1% 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 IP18 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 3,827 Census 2021 residents of IP18.
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
0%3
35%4
9%5
0%6
57%7
0%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 IP18 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)
£375,000 (43)
2025
£485,000 (91)
2024
£500,000 (79)
2023
£565,500 (78)
2022
£539,062 (110)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£560,000 (17)
£286,500 (10)
£270,000 (11)
£250,000 (5)
2025
£650,000 (38)
£462,500 (16)
£408,750 (32)
£405,000 (5)
2024
£540,000 (38)
£550,000 (17)
£416,000 (24)
–
2023
£565,000 (37)
£741,250 (12)
£635,000 (21)
£357,500 (8)
2022
£590,000 (46)
£470,000 (19)
£482,500 (40)
£515,000 (5)
Schools and colleges
3 open establishments with a postcode in IP18, 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
18
Medium
4
Low
17
Very low
23
Broadband
Share of the 290 postcodes in IP18 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
35.9%
73.8%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
93.4%
97.6%
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