FOUNDATION STREET, IP4 1BN House Prices & Local Information

IP4 1BN is an up-and-coming urban area on Foundation Street, 0.4km from Ipswich in Ipswich. Administratively it sits within Alexandra ward and the Ipswich constituency.

An affordable area with active regeneration, IP4 1BN is a diverse renting area with many ethnic minority families, mostly European-born. By day, the area transitions to a metro suburban distribution industries character: ethnically mixed workforce in transportation and storage. An average age of 38 puts this squarely in mixed-family territory — professional couples, school-age children households, and established residents all sharing the streets. 31% of homes are socially rented, reflecting the area's public housing provision and council presence.

Safety: Crime rates are high (216 per 1,000 residents) — commercial zones and transport hubs in the vicinity contribute to these figures. Property: With prices averaging £126k, this is one of the more affordable postcodes in the area, down 16.6% year-on-year. The Index of Multiple Deprivation places this area in the most deprived 20% nationally — this often means more affordable prices and active local authority investment, but also fewer amenities and higher benefit dependency.

Census 2021 statistics for IP4 1BN are sourced from Output Area E00152685 (shared with 28 postcodes in this micro-neighbourhood). Property prices come from HM Land Registry.