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Stradbroke

Stradbroke is a village in Suffolk, England, with a population of around 1,089. It has 8 bus stops and there were around 6 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence and sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Stradbroke area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Mid Suffolk area is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 102,695 residents at roughly 118 people per km².

Council
Mid Suffolk
County
Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
Police force
Suffolk
72/ 100

My Area Score

Excellent

Ranked 14th of 294 English council areas — better than 95% of them.

Home affordability54
Affordable rents70
Good schools57
Life expectancy93
Low deprivation64
Employment90
Low council tax78

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. Scored on 80% of the full weighting — some data isn't available here. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

9°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 13° / 9° · 57% rain
  • Tomorrow: 12° / 8° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:54Sunset 16:22

9h 28m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

18US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Norwich Lakenfields, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 7.0 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 5.2% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

7 reported · August 2026

  • Violence & sexual offences4
  • Anti-social behaviour1
  • Criminal damage & arson1
  • Shoplifting1

Neighbourhood team: Debenham and Eye · Suffolk

Local policing priorities

  • Anti-social behaviour to include behaviour of vehicle users
  • Targeting overnight offences within the rural community.

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

163 reported road collisions (2025)

43 killed or seriously injured · 205 casualties · 15.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

14 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 10 rated 4–5 ★ (10 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • 8 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Diss (11.8 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£317,979 average▲ 5.3% YoY

Across Mid Suffolk · to 2026-08

Detached£440,981
Semi-detached£278,154
Terraced£226,023
Flat£142,118

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,005 average monthly rent▲ 6.3% YoY

  • 1 bed £721
  • 2 bed £922
  • 3 bed £1,122

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

8.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.0 times median annual pay (8.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,688 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

EV charging

2 charging locations within ~8 km

  • Fastest nearby: 7 kW
  • Nearest: PIS Wilby VH (2.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Sports pitches5
  • Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

102,695 residents in Mid Suffolk · 118/km²

  • Under 16: 16%
  • 16–64: 59%
  • 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK8,046
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,506
  • Net moves+2,540

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 191 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,317 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (27% of 50,370)

A £1,545
B £1,802
C £2,059
D £2,317
E £2,832
F £3,347
G £3,861
H £4,634

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

57 schools · 14,148 pupils

46 primary · 7 secondary · 4 other

Ofsted: 18 of 20 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (90%)

54 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Debenham High SchoolGood
  • Stowupland High SchoolRequires improvement
  • Claydon High School
  • Hartismere School
  • Stowmarket High School
  • Stradbroke High School
  • Thurston Community College

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Mid Suffolk

Care & health services

692 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes197
  • GP practices92
  • Dentists135
  • Homecare agencies208
  • Hospitals & hospices15

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 9 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Suffolk

Heritage & planning

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 57 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

231 applications decided

91.8% granted · 212 granted, 19 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Adrian Ramsay

Green Party

Waveney Valley

Recent votes:

  • AyeDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • AyeWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process
  • AyeDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Green majority

  • Con 3
  • LD 4
  • Grn 23
  • Oth 4

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools2
  • GPs & clinics1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

5,625 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

3 jobs advertised · £26,059 avg

e.g. Administration Officer, 1-to-1 Learning Support Assistant

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£764 median full-time weekly pay

2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,233 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

47% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 49,211 certificates

10.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

83% low-carbon electricity

Wind 51% · Nuclear 20% · Gas 16% · Biomass 11%

77 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 85.7 yrs women · 82.6 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Suffolk): 61.7 women · 62.1 men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction8.0
  • Feeling worthwhile8.0
  • Happiness yesterday7.7
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.7

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Health services

2 GP surgeries · 0 pharmacies in IP21

  • Church Hill Surgery
  • Fressingfield Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Waveney Valley:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Stradbroke · 0.2 km

    Stradbroke is an English village in the Mid Suffolk district of the county of Suffolk. The census of 2011 gave the parish a population of 1,408, with an estimate of 1,513 in 2018.

  • Stradbroke High School · 0.4 km

    Stradbroke High School is a secondary school with academy status for 11- to 16-year-olds in the village of Stradbroke in the English county of Suffolk. Founded in 1953 as a secondary modern school on the edge of the v…

  • Stradisphere Festival · 0.4 km

    Stradisphere Festival was an annual music festival held in Stradbroke, Suffolk, England, in July. It celebrated its 5th year in 2018 with headliners Badly Drawn Boy and Sam and the Womp.

  • Stradbroke railway station · 1.0 km

    Stradbroke railway station was a station located in Stradbroke, Suffolk, England. It was on the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway between Horham and Wilby. Stradbroke Station opened on 29 September 1908, and closed on 28 July…

  • Hoxne Rural District · 2.1 km

    Hoxne Rural District was a rural district within the administrative county of East Suffolk between 1894 and 1934. It was created out of the earlier Hoxne rural sanitary district. It was named after the historic hundre…

  • Horham · 2.1 km

    Horham is a village in the county of Suffolk, in the East Anglia region of eastern England, United Kingdom. Horham is located approximately halfway between Norwich and Ipswich, and also approximately halfway between E…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Stradbroke?
Stradbroke is a town in Suffolk, England, in the Mid Suffolk local authority.
What is the population of Stradbroke?
Stradbroke has an approximate settlement population of 1,089.
How deprived is Stradbroke?
The Mid Suffolk local authority, which includes Stradbroke, is less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.