Does NE30 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE30 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 10 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE30 postcode district covers North Shields, Tynemouth, close to Cullercoats, Gosforth, Lamesley, and surrounding villages in parts of Tyne and Wear and Northumberland.

10 postcodes in the NE30 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 1 medium, 5 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 NE30 postcodes are at risk?

NE30 1HF up to High NE30 1JA up to High NE30 4BY up to High NE30 4HH up to High NE30 4QB up to Medium NE30 1HE up to Low NE30 1HJ up to Low NE30 1JE up to Low NE30 4JA up to Low NE30 4PZ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NE30

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

152 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (76 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

NE29 NE31 NE28 NE32 NE27 NE33 NE26 NE34

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.