Neighbourhoods in East Suffolk
Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.
30 neighbourhoods · 145 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in East Suffolk
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in East Suffolk. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the East Suffolk median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across East Suffolk.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in East Suffolk
Crime in East Suffolk runs at 2.4× safer than the national average. Best 10% (#31 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 41.7, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in East Suffolk
100% of schools serving East Suffolk are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in East Suffolk
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from East Suffolk
East Suffolk has 0.38 jobs per resident locally. Below median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about East Suffolk
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in East Suffolk?
- The median monthly rent across East Suffolk is £831, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in East Suffolk?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in East Suffolk by estimated median rent is Lowestoft Central at approximately £628/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in East Suffolk?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in East Suffolk is Oulton Broad West at 96/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is East Suffolk a safe area?
- East Suffolk has an average safety score of 77/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in East Suffolk?
- The most common council tax band in East Suffolk is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £299. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within East Suffolk.
- What is the average salary in East Suffolk?
- The median annual resident salary in East Suffolk is £30,261, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in East Suffolk, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in East Suffolk?
- The average property price in East Suffolk is approximately £280,757 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in East Suffolk?
- Gross rental yield in East Suffolk is approximately 3.3% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in East Suffolk?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 4.7 years in East Suffolk. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in East Suffolk?
- 100% of premises in East Suffolk are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in East Suffolk?
- 3.0% of 16-64 residents in East Suffolk are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in East Suffolk?
- East Suffolk contains 30 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 145 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in East Suffolk
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- East Suffolk 029D
- East Suffolk 004B
- East Suffolk 004C
- East Suffolk 019D
- East Suffolk 030C
- East Suffolk 025A
- East Suffolk 006C
- East Suffolk 024A
- East Suffolk 004D
- East Suffolk 029B
- East Suffolk 004A
- East Suffolk 013A
- East Suffolk 025G
- East Suffolk 012A
- East Suffolk 030B
- East Suffolk 006A
- East Suffolk 022D
- East Suffolk 006B
- East Suffolk 022A
- East Suffolk 030A
- East Suffolk 004E
- East Suffolk 004F
- East Suffolk 023B
- East Suffolk 023F
- East Suffolk 015C
- East Suffolk 018D
- East Suffolk 010A
- East Suffolk 020B
- East Suffolk 025F
- East Suffolk 023D
- East Suffolk 017B
- East Suffolk 006D
- East Suffolk 014B
- East Suffolk 028B
- East Suffolk 017E
- East Suffolk 008C
- East Suffolk 016C
- East Suffolk 008B
- East Suffolk 008A
- East Suffolk 015B
- East Suffolk 008D
- East Suffolk 005C
- East Suffolk 023A
- East Suffolk 012E
- East Suffolk 017C
- East Suffolk 017A
- East Suffolk 025C
- East Suffolk 006E
- East Suffolk 018C
- East Suffolk 016B
- East Suffolk 010B
- East Suffolk 020D
- East Suffolk 029C
- East Suffolk 026B
- East Suffolk 024B
- East Suffolk 018E
- East Suffolk 027A
- East Suffolk 021A
- East Suffolk 009A
- East Suffolk 002B
- East Suffolk 028C
- East Suffolk 003B
- East Suffolk 015A
- East Suffolk 007D
- East Suffolk 024D
- East Suffolk 009E
- East Suffolk 014C
- East Suffolk 021C
- East Suffolk 012D
- East Suffolk 028E
- East Suffolk 001A
- East Suffolk 002E
- East Suffolk 013B
- East Suffolk 011A
- East Suffolk 002D
- East Suffolk 005D
- East Suffolk 029E
- East Suffolk 026A
- East Suffolk 010C
- East Suffolk 027C
Showing 80 of 145 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.