The population of the parish including Stratton Hall at the 2011 Census was 259.

– 1636), Member of Parliament, Attorney-General to Anne of Denmark Queen Consort to James I, and one-time owner of Framlingham Castle was born in the village.

He bequeathed the castle to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he had been educated, on his death.

The village is widely known for the Levington Research Station, built by Fisons in 1957.

The fertiliser factory of Fisons was at Bramford, west of Ipswich.