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East of England

Ipswich

4th decile deprivation (IMD 2025) LOW funding gap
29
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What the data shows

1 GP for every 2,592 patients. The NHS England average is around 2,200.
NHS Digital General Practice Workforce (Feb 2026) and Patients Registered at a GP Practice (Mar 2026)

Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for Ipswich yet. Full data arrives after the May 2026 elections.

Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

Rank out of 543 English constituencies. Lower rank = more deprived.

crime
122/543
health
150/543
income
152/543
housing
397/543
education
84/543
Bottom 20%
employment
151/543
environment
280/543

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), published October 2025. See methodology.

Identified resource gaps

education MODERATE
Rank 84/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
1316 education-focused charities, 7964 employees
crime MODERATE
Rank 122/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
income LOW
Rank 152/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
443 income-focused charities, 1365 employees
employment LOW
Rank 151/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
305 employment-focused charities, 1598 employees
health LOW
Rank 150/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
1056 health-focused charities, 5476 employees
GP ratio: 1:2592 (above 1:2000 threshold)

Gap severity is computed from IMD 2025 domain ranks and Charity Commission data. See methodology.

3022 registered charities

3,022
Charities
£23,338,244
Grants to HQ'd charities
11,582
Employees
70,713
Volunteers
17.3%
Govt funded
LOW
Funding gap

Grant funding is above the national median. Grant totals reflect money received by charities whose registered office is in this constituency. National charities headquartered here will inflate the total even if most of their work happens elsewhere; charities that serve this constituency but are registered elsewhere will not appear. Source: 360Giving GrantNav and the Charity Commission Register. See methodology for definitions and known limitations.

Largest charities by income

POOR'S FEN(NO 2)
TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNECTION WITH THE SUFFOLK NATURALISTS' SOCIETY
TOWN ESTATE
COLLINS DOLE
JOHN BOOTY
LYDIA LOUISA CARLOS
SIR JEFFREY BURWELL FOR APPRENTICING AND PARISH CLERK
CHARLES GRINTER BEQUEST
ELIZABETH WARNER COTTAGE
TOWN ESTATE CHARITY (ONE HALF PART OF NON-ECCLESIASTICAL CHARITIES SHARE )

GP and primary care

10
GP practices
61
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,592
Patients per FQ FTE GP

The NHS England average is approximately 2,200 patients per fully-qualified full-time equivalent GP (NHS Digital General Practice Workforce, February 2026; trainees, grant-paid and locum GPs excluded from the denominator). This constituency is 392 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Ipswich, by sector

Sector Employees
NHS / Healthcare 10,000
Education 5,000
Transport 4,200
Social Care 3,250
Construction 2,600
Environment / Green 200

Employee jobs in each sector within this constituency. Workforce exists; the question is whether central government chooses to fund the posts. Source: NOMIS Business Register and Employment Survey (2024). Figures are rounded by ONS for disclosure control. See methodology.

Data sources & provenance
360Giving GrantNav [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
NHS Digital / Commons Library GP Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
Charity Commission Register [source]
Accessed 2026-03-31
English Indices of Deprivation [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
ONS NOMIS Labour Market Statistics [source]
Accessed 2026-04-04
Charity Commission Annual Return Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
Charity Commission Classification Extract [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08

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