Does NE6 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE6 district carry real flood risk: 6 of its 6 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE6 postcode district covers Byker, Walker, Walkergate, close to Gosforth, Lamesley, Cullercoats, and surrounding villages in parts of Tyne and Wear and County Durham.

6 postcodes in the NE6 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 6 high. 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 NE6 postcodes are at risk?

NE6 1HX up to High NE6 1LX up to High NE6 1UQ up to High NE6 3PJ up to High NE6 3QS up to High NE6 4LY up to High

Rivers and flooding history near NE6

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

126 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (30 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

NE8 NE3 NE10 NE2 NE1 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.