Does NE3 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE3 district carry real flood risk: 17 of its 58 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE3 postcode district covers Parklands, Castle, Dene & South Gosforth, Gosforth, close to Woolsington, Ponteland, Hartford Bridge, and surrounding villages in parts of Tyne and Wear and Northumberland.

58 postcodes in the NE3 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 17 high, 10 medium, 29 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 NE3 postcodes are at risk?

NE3 1TD up to High NE3 2DJ up to High NE3 2DP up to High NE3 2UF up to High NE3 2UG up to High NE3 2UH up to High NE3 2UL up to High NE3 2UQ up to High NE3 2UU up to High NE3 2UW up to High NE3 2UZ up to High NE3 2XA up to High NE3 2XB up to High NE3 2XD up to High NE3 2XE up to High NE3 2XR up to High NE3 5EP up to High NE3 2DN up to Medium NE3 2DU up to Medium NE3 2EL up to Medium NE3 2UJ up to Medium NE3 5AQ up to Medium NE3 5DB up to Medium NE3 5ER up to Medium NE3 5JW up to Medium NE3 5LU up to Medium NE3 5LZ up to Medium NE3 1HH up to Low NE3 1SY up to Low NE3 1TA up to Low NE3 1TB up to Low NE3 2DX up to Low NE3 2EB up to Low NE3 2JP up to Low NE3 2UE up to Low NE3 2UY up to Low NE3 2YB up to Low NE3 5AB up to Low NE3 5AE up to Low NE3 5AJ up to Low NE3 5AL up to Low NE3 5AN up to Low NE3 5AP up to Low NE3 5AR up to Low NE3 5AS up to Low NE3 5AT up to Low NE3 5ED up to Low NE3 5EU up to Low NE3 5JA up to Low NE3 5JB up to Low NE3 5LL up to Low NE3 5LS up to Low NE3 5LX up to Low NE3 5NH up to Low NE3 5NJ up to Low NE3 5TB up to Low NE3 2DR up to Very low NE3 5TR up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near NE3

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

110 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (14 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

NE2 NE1 NE6 NE8 NE10 NE11 NE12 NE13

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.