Neighbourhoods in Ipswich
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16 neighbourhoods · 85 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Maidenhall, Stoke & Port | £856 | +3.6% | 91 | 53 |
| Westgate | £868 | +3.6% | 85 | 34 |
| Gipping & Chantry Park | £874 | +3.6% | 80 | 29 |
| Ipswich Central | £911 | +3.6% | 95 | 73 |
| Holywells | £915 | +3.6% | 98 | 78 |
| Whitehouse | £925 | +3.6% | 79 | 55 |
| Belstead Hills | £978 | +3.6% | 92 | 78 |
| Gainsborough, Greenwich & Orwell | £987 | +3.6% | 79 | 52 |
| Whitton | £998 | +3.6% | 82 | 62 |
| California | £1,008 | +3.6% | 97 | 78 |
| Priory Heath | £1,017 | +3.6% | 89 | 72 |
| Stoke Park | £1,040 | +3.6% | 80 | 55 |
| Christchurch Park | £1,071 | +3.6% | 80 | 95 |
| Castle Hill | £1,089 | +3.6% | 78 | 89 |
| Rushmere | £1,146 | +3.6% | 93 | 92 |
| Broke Hall | £1,246 | +3.6% | 96 | 96 |
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 Ipswich
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Ipswich. 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 Ipswich median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Ipswich.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Ipswich
Crime in Ipswich runs at 24% below the national average. Below median (#222 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 76.1, 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 Ipswich
100% of schools serving Ipswich 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 Ipswich
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 Ipswich
Ipswich has 0.52 jobs per resident locally. Top quartile
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Ipswich
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 Ipswich?
- The median monthly rent across Ipswich is £985, 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 Ipswich?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Ipswich by estimated median rent is Maidenhall, Stoke & Port at approximately £856/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Ipswich?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Ipswich is Holywells at 98/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Ipswich a safe area?
- Ipswich has an average safety score of 63/100 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 Ipswich?
- The most common council tax band in Ipswich is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £432. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Ipswich.
- What is the average salary in Ipswich?
- The median annual resident salary in Ipswich is £30,928, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Ipswich, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Ipswich?
- The average property price in Ipswich is approximately £216,515 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 Ipswich?
- Gross rental yield in Ipswich is approximately 4.7% — 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 Ipswich?
- 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 3.7 years in Ipswich. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Ipswich?
- 100% of premises in Ipswich 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 Ipswich?
- 4.6% of 16-64 residents in Ipswich 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 Ipswich?
- Ipswich contains 16 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 85 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 Ipswich
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.
- Ipswich 006B
- Ipswich 010E
- Ipswich 006A
- Ipswich 008A
- Ipswich 012A
- Ipswich 008B
- Ipswich 006C
- Ipswich 008E
- Ipswich 007C
- Ipswich 006E
- Ipswich 008D
- Ipswich 010B
- Ipswich 011F
- Ipswich 005D
- Ipswich 006D
- Ipswich 003D
- Ipswich 007E
- Ipswich 012F
- Ipswich 003A
- Ipswich 007D
- Ipswich 011B
- Ipswich 007H
- Ipswich 005A
- Ipswich 011E
- Ipswich 007G
- Ipswich 007A
- Ipswich 016F
- Ipswich 004D
- Ipswich 012B
- Ipswich 002D
- Ipswich 009D
- Ipswich 001E
- Ipswich 014B
- Ipswich 012G
- Ipswich 012C
- Ipswich 007F
- Ipswich 011D
- Ipswich 015B
- Ipswich 012D
- Ipswich 014F
- Ipswich 013E
- Ipswich 013B
- Ipswich 009B
- Ipswich 005C
- Ipswich 004A
- Ipswich 004B
- Ipswich 014C
- Ipswich 016B
- Ipswich 002B
- Ipswich 016E
- Ipswich 010D
- Ipswich 014D
- Ipswich 003B
- Ipswich 013C
- Ipswich 001A
- Ipswich 004C
- Ipswich 003C
- Ipswich 014E
- Ipswich 010C
- Ipswich 009A
- Ipswich 014G
- Ipswich 011C
- Ipswich 002C
- Ipswich 013A
- Ipswich 016C
- Ipswich 015D
- Ipswich 016A
- Ipswich 001B
- Ipswich 005B
- Ipswich 001D
- Ipswich 004E
- Ipswich 015C
- Ipswich 010A
- Ipswich 016D
- Ipswich 008C
- Ipswich 001C
- Ipswich 002E
- Ipswich 013D
- Ipswich 015A
- Ipswich 009E
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