Mill Street Stowupland, Mid Suffolk

42 addresses across 3 postcodes (IP14), about 780 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 25500858.

  • Sales: 29 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £340,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Mid Suffolk cost £317,979 in August 2026 (+5.3% on a year); private rents averaged £1,011 a month.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 1, D: 2, E: 5).
  • Flood: 9 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 4 times (20 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Climax Molybdenum UK Limited, Needham Road - Solar PV Panels, is 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A1120, carries 8,593 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Mid Suffolk costs £2,317 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Stowmarket, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 670 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 46 to 59 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 27 of its 42 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Combs Ford Surgery, about 2 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 640 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often public order.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, and it was serious.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£340,000£340,000£340,000
20231£320,000£320,000£320,000
20214£368,750£275,000£420,000
20201£450,000£450,000£450,000
20171£555,000£555,000£555,000
20154£282,500£246,000£448,000
20142£361,000£287,000£435,000
20121£186,000£186,000£186,000
20081£250,000£250,000£250,000
20061£161,389£161,389£161,389
20052£192,000£185,000£199,000
20031£120,000£120,000£120,000
All 29 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Feb 20051 IP14 5BJSemi-detached£185,000
20 Jan 20031 IP14 5BJSemi-detached£120,000
14 Mar 20011 IP14 5BJSemi-detached£75,000
8 May 201210 IP14 5BLSemi-detached£186,000
10 Apr 201414 IP14 5BLDetached£287,000
14 Sep 200114 IP14 5BLDetached£159,500
30 Oct 199814 IP14 5BLDetached£71,000
12 Nov 202117 IP14 5BLDetached£400,000
21 Aug 201517 IP14 5BLDetached£246,000
9 Oct 2015ALIBABA IP14 5BJDetached£448,000
30 Sep 2019AMICI LODGE IP14 5BJOther£355,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Dec 2021CLO-DELL IP14 5BLDetached£275,000
23 Aug 2021DOMUS IP14 5BJDetached£337,500
31 Mar 2015DOMUS IP14 5BJDetached£250,000
16 Dec 2005DOMUS IP14 5BJDetached£199,000
27 Oct 2006HILLCROFT IP14 5BLDetached£161,389
20 Aug 2026L'ANCRESSE IP14 5BLDetached£340,000
1 Sep 2023L'ANCRESSE IP14 5BLDetached£320,000
5 Sep 2008L'ANCRESSE IP14 5BLDetached£250,000
9 May 1997L'ANCRESSE IP14 5BLDetached£78,000
9 May 2014MILL GREEN FARMHOUSE IP14 5BJDetached£435,000
23 Feb 2001MILL GREEN FARMHOUSE IP14 5BJDetached£215,000
5 Dec 2017ORCHARD HOUSE IP14 5BJDetached£555,000
24 May 2002PIPPIN COTTAGE IP14 5BJDetached£215,000
10 Dec 1999PIPPIN COTTAGE IP14 5BJDetached£161,000
18 Dec 2020SLOE COTTAGE IP14 5BJDetached£450,000
28 Sep 2021THATCH COTTAGE IP14 5BJDetached£420,000
29 Sep 2015THATCH COTTAGE IP14 5BJDetached£315,000
22 Nov 2023WILD WOOD IP14 5BJOther£180,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in Mid Suffolk

A typical home in Mid Suffolk cost £317,979 in August 2026, 5.3% more than a year before. That is 11% more than five years earlier and 28% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£440,981
Semi-detached£278,154
Terraced£226,023
Flat or maisonette£142,118
Bought by a first-time buyer£260,075

Private renters in Mid Suffolk paid £1,011 a month on average in September 2026, 6.9% more than a year before. That is 40% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£725
Two bedrooms£928
Three bedrooms£1,130
Four or more bedrooms£1,593

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 108 m². Most common: House, detached (5); Bungalow, detached (4). Built: before 1900 (3); 1950-1966 (2); 2019 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 9,802 kWh of it on average in 2024, 9% more than the district's 9,030 kWh, and 3,137 kWh of electricity, 20% less than the district's 3,928 kWh. There are gas meters for about 59% of the homes.

2 of its postcodes have no gas meters recorded among 10 or more homes: often flats heated by electricity, or homes off the gas grid.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
IP14 5BJ18 10 Economy 72,954 kWh none recorded
IP14 5BL123,602 kWh none recorded
IP14 4DR52 8 Economy 71,921 kWh 489,608 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is IP14.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Mid Suffolk in 2026-27: Band D £2,317 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,545£1,802£2,059£2,317£2,832£3,347£3,861£4,634

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (32% of about 1,470 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 5.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Climax Molybdenum UK Limited, Needham Road - Solar PV Panels Mid Suffolk DC/23/04966 Solar farm 1.2 MW Permission granted, not yet built May 2024 1 km (0.6 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 8 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, temp obstruction 15 minute delay, on the verge (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 7 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
IP14 5BJnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 3 unlikely
IP14 5BLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP14 4DRnot in 2 or 3 2 / 5 / 4 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 4 times, for 20 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Tributary of River Gipping Nt.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Stowmarket Stw Anglian Water Tributary of River Gipping Nt 4 20 1 km (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 42 addresses are between 46 m and 59 m above sea level (55 m on average); the ground rises about 13 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
IP14 4DR100%100%100%0%
IP14 5BJ100%96%96%0%
IP14 5BL100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsStowmarket 976,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Needham Market 130,000 journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Elmswell 122,000 journeys in 2024–259.2 km (5.7 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mill Street Cedars Park330 m
Bus or coach stationBarnards Stowmarket1.6 km (1 mile)
Car parksStowmarket Station (Creeting Road) Car Park1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station790 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI56.9 km (35 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN63.7 km (40 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeriesCombs Ford Surgery Good Dec 20222 km (1.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco In-Store Pharmacy700 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentistsChurch View Dental Practice1.7 km (1.1 miles)
HospitalHartismere Hospital16.9 km (11 miles)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cedrus House Good Oct 2023570 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationStowmarket Police Station.2.2 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machinesMFG - Stowmarket Cashzone1.9 km (1.2 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,470 m²670 m (0.4 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 410 m²310 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 5.9 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,710 m²760 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Abbot's Hall, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.9 km (1.2 miles) west. 13 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Abbot's HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
New CutLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Combs WoodWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Fir CovertWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Royal's WoodWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Sallow GroveWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) south
Badley HillHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)15.34015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 and PM10 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6920
60 to 6470
55 to 59180
Under 551542

27 of the street's 42 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Mid Suffolk: see them on the Mid Suffolk page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 6 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Cedars Park Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11630 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
Stowupland High SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 40.1 (41.1 in 2025); 27.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade D; 11.1% AAB or better; progress well below average
Freeman Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 54% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
Combs Ford Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement 47% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

3 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 670 m (0.4 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Busy Bees Day Nursery at Stowmarket IP14 5GZ Full day care 112 Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 670 m (0.4 miles)
Stowupland Pre-School IP14 4BQ Sessional day care 27 Good (Jan 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Sunhill Early Learning Stowmarket IP14 1RQ Full day care 66 Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 229 childminders and 46 home childcarers (nannies) in Suffolk. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 6 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

1 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cygnet Road (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 0 slight, in which 3 people were seriously hurt. Most were on roads with a 70 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202311
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
9 Jun 2023 09:53 Serious 5 people A14, 70 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A1120 between A14 and B1115, with 8,593 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 240 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A1120 A14 to B1115 8,593 estimated; counted 2019 3% +2% since 2015 240 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 643 residents in 314 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age5940
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over39%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright61%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)42%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van70%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)48%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • IP14 5BJ: 31 addresses of 35 in the postcode
  • IP14 5BL: 10 addresses of 15 in the postcode
  • IP14 4DR: 1 address of 54 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Cygnet Road · Mill Street · Crossbill Road · Osprey Drive · Creeting Rise · Creeting Road · Creeting Road · Hedge Sparrow Road · Suncrest Rise

All the streets in IP14 and across Mid Suffolk.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.