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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.
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
2850
210
Sep
232
Oct
234
Nov
239
Dec
255
Jan
238
Feb
285
Mar
245
Apr
244
May
249
Jun
254
Jul
231
Aug
Show as a table
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.
Violence and sexual offences35.7%
1,041 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Shoplifting18.5%
540 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Vehicle crime8.7%
255 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Criminal damage and arson8.2%
239 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Anti-social behaviour6.2%
181 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Other theft6.0%
176 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Public order4.9%
143 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Burglary4.0%
117 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in IP3
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.
About 243 records a month. The busiest month was March 2026, with 285.
Records here changed by +9.5% on the 12 months before, against +2.9% across the Suffolk Constabulary area, the main force here with 99.8% of IP3's records, over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 35.7% 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 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
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 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%.
14%1
9%2
10%3
8%4
8%5
10%6
16%7
9%8
11%9
5%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 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.
Year
All 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
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
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.
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
3
Medium
0
Low
2
Very low
26
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.
Service
Every premises
Some premises
Gigabit
90.1%
97.0%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
98.4%
99.6%
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