IP3 crime rate and statistics

The IP3 postcode district, in the IP (Ipswich) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 2,916 street-crime records for IP3 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 9.5% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 81.7 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.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

2,916

Latest month (August 2026)

231

Year-on-year

+9.5%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 210
October 2025 232
November 2025 234
December 2025 239
January 2026 255
February 2026 238
March 2026 285
April 2026 245
May 2026 244
June 2026 249
July 2026 254
August 2026 231

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.

IP3

81.7

Suffolk Constabulary

64.8

2,916 records and 35,710 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 IP3 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in IP3

Published street-crime records in IP3, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of IP3: the north-west 1,096, the south-west 447, the west 362, the north 277, the south-east 254, the south 245, the east 169, the centre 96, the north-east 55.

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 IP3's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and IP3'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 IP3 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore IP3 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for IP3 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 2,940
2022 3,284
2023 2,933
2024 2,701
2025 2,682
2026 (part year) 2,001

Is IP3 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for IP3 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in IP3 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

Moving home? Read how to check crime rates before buying a house. Browse all postcode districts

Police forces

IP3's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Suffolk Constabulary (99.8%), Metropolitan Police (0.1%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.0%), Humberside Police (0.0%) and Norfolk Constabulary (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in IP3

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
IP3 0 879
IP3 8 939
IP3 9 1,098

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 35,710 Census 2021 residents of IP3.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 23.2% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 16.3% in the least deprived 20%.

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 IP3 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.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £245,000 (262)
2025 £245,000 (450)
2024 £250,000 (389)
2023 £250,000 (396)
2022 £245,000 (471)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £375,000 (50) £255,000 (115) £212,500 (60) £128,000 (37)
2025 £360,000 (81) £250,000 (205) £220,000 (107) £135,000 (57)
2024 £365,000 (81) £255,000 (184) £218,000 (66) £126,500 (58)
2023 £390,000 (73) £268,000 (174) £220,000 (83) £136,500 (66)
2022 £380,000 (76) £264,000 (182) £220,000 (107) £138,500 (106)

Schools and colleges

11 open establishments with a postcode in IP3, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 11 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Cliff Lane Primary School Primary Academy converter
Morland Church of England Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Murrayfield Primary - A Paradigm Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
Piper's Vale Primary - A Paradigm Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
Ravenswood Community Primary School Primary Academy converter
Rose Hill Primary Primary Academy converter
Ipswich Academy Secondary Academy sponsor led
Alderwood Academy – Academy alternative provision converter
First Base Ipswich Academy – Academy alternative provision converter
New Skill Centre – Other independent special school
Sir Bobby Robson School – Free schools special

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

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 bandPostcodes
High3
Medium0
Low2
Very low26

Broadband

Share of the 761 postcodes in IP3 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.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit90.1%97.0%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)98.4%99.6%

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CrimeMapsUK. IP3 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/ip3/

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