Copdock
Hamlet · 123 residents
73Very good
Very good · better than 9 in 10 hamlets
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 65 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 76, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 41% of the area
- Health scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Copdock
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Copdock a good place to live?
Copdock scores 73/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (86) and transport (76).
It scores lowest on health (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Copdock in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Copdock
Copdock sits just off the main road into Ipswich, the kind of place where detached houses sit behind long drives and the traffic noise from the A14 corridor is the backdrop rather than the point. It doesn't feel like a commuter dormitory so much as a scatter of well-kept homes that happen to be close to a bigger town without being part of it. With a median age around 50, this isn't a place buzzing with young families pushing buggies to the shops — it's settled, older, and quiet in a way that feels deliberate rather than sleepy.
There's no rail station listed in the village itself, so anyone weighing up a commute needs to think in terms of driving into Ipswich rather than walking to a platform. Schooling is local and small-scale: Copdock Primary School serves the village directly, while Hintlesham and Chattisham Church of England Primary, rated Good, sits close by as the more established option if you're choosing on Ofsted alone. On the housing side, the picture is consistent rather than mixed — detached freehold houses dominate sales here, and every recorded sale in the sample was freehold, which tells you this is a village of owner-occupied family homes rather than rentals or new-build estates; new-build share sits at zero. At a median sale price of £342,500, against a Babergh district median of £319,000, you're paying a modest premium of around 7% to be in Copdock specifically rather than the wider district — not dramatic, but noticeable.