Ruby Way Ipswich, Mid Suffolk

33 addresses across 1 postcode (IP1), about 390 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25504484.

  • Sales: 27 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £323,000 across 13 sales.
  • Energy: 32 homes have an energy certificate (B: 32).
  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • 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 98% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Westerfield, about 3.5 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.8 km away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 41 to 46 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 33 of its 33 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cardinal Medical Practice, about 2.2 km away.
  • People: About 170 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 65% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
202513£323,000£270,746£419,995
202410£293,998£250,000£417,996
20232£337,995£329,995£345,995
Most recent sales (27)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 Aug 202519 IP1 6FUSemi-detached£299,995New build.
28 Aug 202520 IP1 6FUDetached£318,246New build.
18 Aug 202521 IP1 6FUSemi-detached£284,996New build.
27 Jun 202517 IP1 6FUDetached£323,000New build.
27 Jun 202525 IP1 6FUSemi-detached£270,746New build.
30 May 202518 IP1 6FUDetached£337,246New build.
22 May 202526 IP1 6FUSemi-detached£284,996New build.
14 May 202515 IP1 6FUDetached£349,995New build.
28 Feb 20259 IP1 6FUDetached£419,995New build.
31 Jan 20256 IP1 6FUDetached£389,495New build.
30 Jan 202511 IP1 6FUDetached£339,995New build.
29 Jan 20253 IP1 6FUDetached£398,995New build.
29 Jan 20255 IP1 6FUDetached£322,996New build.
20 Dec 20244 IP1 6FUDetached£417,996New build.
29 Nov 202451 IP1 6FUDetached£408,500New build.
31 Oct 202452 IP1 6FUSemi-detached£280,245New build.
24 Oct 202443 IP1 6FUDetached£305,000New build.
27 Sep 202450 IP1 6FUSemi-detached£280,246New build.
30 Aug 202439 IP1 6FUSemi-detached£282,995New build.
31 May 202448 IP1 6FUSemi-detached£250,000New build.
17 May 202449 IP1 6FUDetached£330,000New build.
28 Mar 202453 IP1 6FUDetached£315,995New build.
24 Jan 202446 IP1 6FUSemi-detached£269,995New build.
24 Nov 20232 IP1 6FUDetached£329,995New build.
7 Nov 202330 IP1 6FUOther£539,392Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Feb 202354 IP1 6FUOther£254,996Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jan 20231 IP1 6FUDetached£345,995New build.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from June 2023 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

32 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 80 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (20); House, detached (9); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 2021 (32).

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.

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£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 (38% of about 960 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: none.
  • 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this street's postcodes yet.

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

Sources: 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 33 addresses are between 41 m and 46 m above sea level (44 m on average).

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
IP1 6FU98%98%98%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 stationsWesterfield 22,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km
Ipswich 3.4 million journeys in 2024–254.8 km
Derby Road (Ipswich) 95,000 journeys in 2024–256.3 km
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m, 8 within 800 m; nearest Bus Gate Whitton370 m
Bus or coach stationTower Ramparts Bus Station Ipswich4.2 km
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station3.0 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN64.8 km

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. 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 surgeriesCardinal Medical Practice2.2 km
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Asda Pharmacy820 m
NHS dentistsDental Surgery1.8 km
HospitalIpswich Hospital6.6 km
Police stationIpswich Police Station4.2 km
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Ipswich Macaulay Road1.3 km

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 gardenUnnamed 4.1 ha1.8 km
Play area1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 120 m²200 m
Playing fieldKing George V Playing Field 6.6 ha830 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 3.0 ha1.2 km

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Mockbeggars Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 780 m north-west. 7 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mockbeggars HallListed building, Grade II*780 m north-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fisk GroveWood530 m west
Broom HillHill590 m west
The GroveWood870 m south-west
The RookeryWood1.0 km north-west
The SladeValley2.3 km north
Long PondLake or reservoir3.3 km south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)10.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)14.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
70 to 7410
65 to 69110
60 to 64140
55 to 5970
Under 55033

33 of the street's 33 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
The Beeches Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km No published inspection
St Pancras Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.5 km Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ormiston Endeavour AcademySecondary11–161.5 km No published inspection
Whitehouse Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km No published inspection
Claydon High SchoolSecondary11–161.8 km Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Highfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.9 km Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Castle Hill Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.9 km No published inspection
Castle Hill Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.9 km Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Range Home and Leisure IP1 5QPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets480 m5 Very good18 May 2023
Cafe 89 IP1 5QPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m5 Very good20 Jun 2025

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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (suffolk).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 173 residents in 63 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 age5340
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over39%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)65%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented30%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)42%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)45%65%
Work 30 km or more away21%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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

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.

  • IP1 6FU: 33 addresses of 70 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Jade Drive · Topaz Close · Quartz Road · Amethyst Close · Garnet Close · Amber Close · Bury Road · Emerald Avenue · Citrine Close · Jasper Close · Old Norwich Road · Old Norwich Road

All the streets in IP1 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.
  • 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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside.

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