Wigmore Close Ipswich

51 addresses across 1 postcode (IP2), about 220 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 18201101.

  • Sales: 86 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £287,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 30 homes have an energy certificate (C: 11, D: 17, E: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Ipswich costs £2,468 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ipswich, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 290 m away, and Ellenbrook Open Space (4.2 hectares) is about 550 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 32 to 37 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 51 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hawthorn Drive Surgery, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 56 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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
20252£287,500£275,000£300,000
20243£240,000£230,000£280,000
20231£285,000£285,000£285,000
20221£228,000£228,000£228,000
20215£250,000£218,000£280,000
20202£315,000£223,000£407,000
20192£238,750£220,000£257,500
20187£212,000£180,000£417,000
20172£211,000£192,000£230,000
20154£291,250£195,000£350,000
20141£185,000£185,000£185,000
20121£235,000£235,000£235,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 86)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Dec 202537 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£275,000
31 Mar 202533 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£300,000
27 Sep 20245 IP2 9SWDetached£280,000
26 Jul 202427 IP2 9SWDetached£230,000
4 Mar 202425 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£240,000
25 Jul 202346 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£285,000
25 Mar 202225 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£228,000
9 Nov 202133 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£280,000
16 Jul 202126 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£218,000
30 Jun 202140 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£260,000
27 Apr 202128 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£221,000
22 Mar 202137 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£250,000
4 Mar 202120 IP2 9SWDetached£252,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Dec 202016 IP2 9SWDetached£407,000
10 Jul 202046 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£223,000
16 Sep 201922 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£220,000
17 Jul 20193 IP2 9SWDetached£257,500
29 Aug 20184 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£212,000
17 Aug 201840 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£230,000
15 Jun 201854 IP2 9SWDetached£417,000
15 Jun 201824 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£236,000
23 Mar 201826 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£180,000
16 Mar 201832 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£200,000
7 Mar 201840 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£200,000
12 Sep 201720 IP2 9SWDetached£230,000
17 Mar 201735 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£192,000
27 Nov 201537 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£195,000
12 Nov 20156 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£232,500
14 Oct 201541 IP2 9SWDetached£350,000
4 Feb 201556 IP2 9SWDetached£350,000
5 Nov 201428 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£185,000
22 Jun 201216 IP2 9SWDetached£235,000
22 Dec 201146 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£147,000
23 Sep 201115 IP2 9SWDetached£180,000
30 Sep 201045 IP2 9SWDetached£325,000
30 Jul 201028 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£142,000
9 Jul 201015 IP2 9SWDetached£179,995
11 Feb 201022 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£148,500
18 Dec 200924 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£158,000
14 Aug 200956 IP2 9SWDetached£270,000
8 Apr 200941 IP2 9SWDetached£197,500
27 Feb 200945 IP2 9SWDetached£250,000
17 Oct 200846 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£139,500
26 Feb 200724 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£163,000
24 Jan 200739 IP2 9SWDetached£173,500
8 Dec 200644 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£162,500
15 Feb 20064 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£147,500
13 Dec 200520 IP2 9SWDetached£135,000
16 Sep 200546 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£139,000
1 Jul 200522 IP2 9SWSemi-detached£145,000

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 January 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

30 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, detached (13); House, semi-detached (12); Bungalow, semi-detached (5). Built: 1976-1982 (14); 1967-1975 (7); 1983-1990 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (23); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (19 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Ipswich in 2026-27: Band D £2,468 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,646£1,920£2,194£2,468£3,017£3,565£4,114£4,937

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (39% of about 620 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 km (0.6 miles)

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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 21 October 2026 to 23 October 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)
  • 2 November 2026 to 4 November 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 13 August 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 11 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 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.

© 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 51 addresses are between 32 m and 37 m above sea level (35 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
IP2 9SW100%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 stationsIpswich 3.4 million journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Derby Road (Ipswich) 95,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Westerfield 22,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Balmoral Close Stoke Park110 m
Bus or coach stationLondon Road Park and Ride Copdock2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Ferry terminalHarwich International Ferry Terminal Harwich International Port13 km (8.1 miles)
Car parksBourne Park car park1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging pointsevyve Charging Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN60 km (37 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN63.8 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. 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hawthorn Drive Surgery1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Welch Pharmacy410 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery410 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSt Clements Hospital4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Police stationIpswich Police Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machinesSnax 24 - Ellenbrook1 km (0.6 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,800 m²290 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Ellenbrook Open Space 4.2 ha550 m (0.3 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 670 m²240 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bourne Park 26 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 4.4 ha810 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 6.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Chantry Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2 km (1.3 miles) north-west. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Chantry ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fishpond CovertWood330 m south-east
Bourne HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Beech WaterLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Cliff ReachTidal water2 km (1.2 miles) east
Wherstead OozeWetland2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Stalls ValleyValley3 km (1.9 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)8.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
55 to 5910
Under 555051

1 of the street's 51 addresses is 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 Ipswich: see them on the Ipswich page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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 Willows Primary SchoolPrimary4–11460 m (0.3 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gusford Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11890 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Chantry AcademySecondary11–16900 m (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Halifax Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Mark's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Oaks Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Stoke High School - Ormiston AcademySecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Sprites Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hillside Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
One Sixth Form College16 plus16–191.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Willows Daycare IP2 9ERHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good15 Dec 2025
The Willows Primary School IP2 9ERSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good12 Jun 2026
Bright Sparks Nursery IP2 9THHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Jul 2026
Asda IP2 9THRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Feb 2024
St Peters Church IP2 9THRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jun 2023
Londis IP2 9THRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Feb 2025
The Manor at Pinewood IP2 9HBHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Jan 2026
Porters Fish IP2 9THTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Jan 2023

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.

56 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences45
Criminal damage and arson4
Public order3
Anti-social behaviour2
Other crime1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Wigmore Close (26); On or near Girton Way (16); On or near Glastonbury Close (4); On or near Lindisfarne Close (3); On or near Balmoral Close (2).

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: 267 residents in 124 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 age5540
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over37%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright61%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)41%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%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 7 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.

  • IP2 9SW: 51 addresses of 52 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Prittlewell Close · Fountains Road · Balmoral Close · Leicester Close · Girton Way · Glastonbury Close · Abingdon Close · St Osyth Close · Egglestone Close · Cambridge Drive · Newark Close · Lindisfarne Close

All the streets in IP2 and across Ipswich.

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 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.