Does NE11 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE11 district carry real flood risk: 1 of its 83 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE11 postcode district covers Lamesley, Lobley Hill and Bensham, Dunston and Teams, Whickham North, close to Gosforth, Tanfield, Rowlands Gill, and surrounding villages in parts of Tyne and Wear and County Durham.

83 postcodes in the NE11 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 high, 30 medium, 50 low, 2 very low. A postcode not listed here has no properties in any recorded risk band (which is good news, but never proof it cannot flood).

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Which NE11 postcodes are at risk?

NE11 0TU up to High NE11 0BD up to Medium NE11 0BQ up to Medium NE11 0ED up to Medium NE11 0EN up to Medium NE11 0ES up to Medium NE11 0EW up to Medium NE11 0HW up to Medium NE11 0JL up to Medium NE11 0JS up to Medium NE11 0JZ up to Medium NE11 0LB up to Medium NE11 0NA up to Medium NE11 0NJ up to Medium NE11 0NX up to Medium NE11 0QA up to Medium NE11 0RS up to Medium NE11 0RU up to Medium NE11 0SH up to Medium NE11 0SP up to Medium NE11 0SQ up to Medium NE11 0SR up to Medium NE11 0ST up to Medium NE11 0SU up to Medium NE11 0SW up to Medium NE11 0SX up to Medium NE11 9EZ up to Medium NE11 9NH up to Medium NE11 9XS up to Medium NE11 9XW up to Medium NE11 9YA up to Medium NE11 0AZ up to Low NE11 0BE up to Low NE11 0BL up to Low NE11 0BP up to Low NE11 0EF up to Low NE11 0EJ up to Low NE11 0ET up to Low NE11 0EU up to Low NE11 0EX up to Low NE11 0HD up to Low NE11 0HH up to Low NE11 0HZ up to Low NE11 0JW up to Low NE11 0NB up to Low NE11 0NG up to Low NE11 0NL up to Low NE11 0NQ up to Low NE11 0NU up to Low NE11 0NY up to Low NE11 0PZ up to Low NE11 0QD up to Low NE11 0RQ up to Low NE11 0RT up to Low NE11 0SJ up to Low NE11 0TX up to Low NE11 0UH up to Low NE11 0XA up to Low NE11 9AE up to Low NE11 9AH up to Low NE11 9BF up to Low NE11 9BT up to Low NE11 9DH up to Low NE11 9DS up to Low NE11 9DW up to Low NE11 9EJ up to Low NE11 9EL up to Low NE11 9EP up to Low NE11 9HN up to Low NE11 9HQ up to Low NE11 9HS up to Low NE11 9HU up to Low NE11 9JB up to Low NE11 9JD up to Low NE11 9JL up to Low NE11 9JQ up to Low NE11 9QU up to Low NE11 9QX up to Low NE11 9QY up to Low NE11 9QZ up to Low NE11 9TF up to Low NE11 0GU up to Very low NE11 0HL up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near NE11

The rivers that matter here, each monitored live on FloodRadar:

108 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (12 at warning level or above), most recently 28 September 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

NE10 NE12 NE13 NE8 NE15 NE16 NE6 NE17

Band = the worst likelihood band of any property in that postcode (EA Risk of Flooding from Rivers & Sea, defence-adjusted, area-level). Check any postcode in detail — or get the full £19 property report — at the property flood-risk report. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2025 OS AC0000807064. This product is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, the copyright in which is owned by Royal Mail Group Limited and/or Royal Mail Group plc. All rights reserved. Licence number AC0000807064.