IP6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

789 of the district's 915 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 52.13285, 1.10933, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in IP6

Companies House lists 1,801 companies with a registered office in IP6; 173 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for IP6

• Suffolk
• Eastern
• Mid Suffolk
• Needham Market
• East Suffolk
• Claydon
• Great Blakenham
• Witnesham
• Sharpstone Street
• Westerfield
• Coddenham
• Ashbocking
• Henley
• Tuddenham St Martin
• Otley
• Playford
• Baylham
• Barham
• Barking
• Creeting St Peter
• Crowfield
• Creeting St Mary
• Swilland
• Barking Tye

Roads filed under IP6

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Acre Close
• Addison Way
• Admiral Way
• Alexander Drive
• Allotment Lane
• All Saints Road
• America Hill
• Ammonite Drive
• Anderson Close
• Apollo Way
• Ashbocking Road
• Ashburnham Road
• Aspen Close
• Back Lane
• Bacon Road
• Badger Close
• Badley Walk
• Barking Road
• Barn Field Drive
• Barn Grove View
• Barrett's Lane
• Belemnite Walk
• Bell's Cross Road
• Berghersh Lane
• Bickers Hill
• Birds Meare
• Blacksmiths Lane
• Blue Barn Lane
• Bluebell Grove
• Bohemian Road
• Bowyer Close
• Bradley Mill Way
• Bramford Road
• Breheny Place
• Brick Drive
• Bridge Street
• Brook Lane
• Buck's Head Lane
• Bull's Road
• Bull Hall Lane
• Burton Drive
• Burwash
• Caird Field
• Catherines Hill
• Cedar Farm Close
• Cedar Walk
• Cemetery Close
• Chainbridge Close
• Chainhouse Road
• Chalkeith Road
• Chalk Hill Lane
• Chalk Lane
• Chapel Lane
• Chapel Road
• Chequers Lane
• Chequers Rise
• Chestnut Close
• Chestnut Drive
• Church Close
• Church Knoll

Check an address in IP6

Check an address in IP6

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=IP6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about IP6

What does an IP6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the IP6 district of the IP (Ipswich) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Needham Market. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 789 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest IP6

• IP17.5 km
• IP88.0 km
• IP49.4 km
• IP149.8 km
• IP29.9 km
• IP311.5 km
• IP512.3 km
• IP713.4 km
• IP1315.7 km
• IP916.3 km
• IP1016.8 km
• IP1218.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids