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IP5 crime rate and statistics
The IP5 postcode district, in the IP (Ipswich) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 913 street-crime records for IP5 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 5.9% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 46.4 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
913
Latest month (August 2026)
55
Year-on-year
-5.9%
Month-by-month totals
1070
70
Sep
107
Oct
73
Nov
67
Dec
78
Jan
54
Feb
76
Mar
93
Apr
69
May
87
Jun
84
Jul
55
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
70
October 2025
107
November 2025
73
December 2025
67
January 2026
78
February 2026
54
March 2026
76
April 2026
93
May 2026
69
June 2026
87
July 2026
84
August 2026
55
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.
IP5
46.4
Suffolk Constabulary
64.8
913 records and 19,659 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 IP5 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 offences45.2%
413 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Other crime13.5%
123 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Shoplifting9.3%
85 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other theft7.4%
68 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Anti-social behaviour6.8%
62 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson6.6%
60 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Public order5.1%
47 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Drugs2.5%
23 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Where records cluster in IP5
Records by part of IP5: the west 1,109, the east 518, the north-east 357, the south 131, the north-west 81, the north 71, the centre 48.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of IP5's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and IP5'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 IP5 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore IP5 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for IP5 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
1,193
2022
1,172
2023
1,005
2024
944
2025
975
2026 (part year)
596
Is IP5 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for IP5 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 76 records a month. The busiest month was October 2025, with 107.
Records here changed by -5.9% on the 12 months before, against +2.9% across the Suffolk Constabulary area, the main force here with 99.5% of IP5's records, over the same months. With 913 records a year, a change of a few percent can be chance.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 45.2% 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 IP5 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 19,659 Census 2021 residents of IP5.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 73.0% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
0%2
0%3
0%4
0%5
9%6
0%7
18%8
24%9
50%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 IP5 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)
£347,500 (154)
2025
£340,000 (310)
2024
£312,500 (327)
2023
£330,000 (253)
2022
£327,400 (288)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£410,000 (68)
£327,500 (45)
£243,750 (30)
£175,000 (11)
2025
£412,000 (147)
£320,000 (87)
£260,000 (51)
£190,000 (25)
2024
£401,625 (135)
£288,000 (78)
£258,000 (67)
£270,000 (47)
2023
£435,000 (125)
£285,000 (63)
£259,000 (34)
£178,000 (31)
2022
£445,000 (123)
£315,000 (78)
£259,995 (49)
£177,250 (38)
Schools and colleges
5 open establishments with a postcode in IP5, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.
Share of the 449 postcodes in IP5 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
86.6%
95.5%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
95.5%
99.1%
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