Does SK1 flood?

Yes — parts of the SK1 district carry real flood risk: 7 of its 73 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SK1 postcode district covers Brinnington & Stockport Central, Manor, close to Stockport, Bredbury, Cheadle, and surrounding villages in parts of Greater Manchester and Cheshire East.

73 postcodes in the SK1 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 7 high, 1 medium, 58 low, 7 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 SK1 postcodes are at risk?

SK1 2AJ up to High SK1 2AN up to High SK1 2AP up to High SK1 2BU up to High SK1 2BX up to High SK1 2NX up to High SK1 2QE up to High SK1 2BP up to Medium SK1 1JT up to Low SK1 1LA up to Low SK1 1LL up to Low SK1 1LW up to Low SK1 1NA up to Low SK1 1NB up to Low SK1 1NE up to Low SK1 1NF up to Low SK1 1NP up to Low SK1 1NT up to Low SK1 1NU up to Low SK1 1PD up to Low SK1 1PE up to Low SK1 1PJ up to Low SK1 1PL up to Low SK1 1PN up to Low SK1 1PP up to Low SK1 1PT up to Low SK1 1PU up to Low SK1 1PW up to Low SK1 1QA up to Low SK1 1QD up to Low SK1 1QW up to Low SK1 1RA up to Low SK1 1RB up to Low SK1 1RH up to Low SK1 1RJ up to Low SK1 1RS up to Low SK1 1RW up to Low SK1 1RX up to Low SK1 1RY up to Low SK1 1SA up to Low SK1 1SE up to Low SK1 1SL up to Low SK1 1SU up to Low SK1 1TA up to Low SK1 1TY up to Low SK1 1UB up to Low SK1 1UD up to Low SK1 1XB up to Low SK1 1XJ up to Low SK1 1XR up to Low SK1 1XU up to Low SK1 2AH up to Low SK1 2AX up to Low SK1 2BT up to Low SK1 2BY up to Low SK1 2BZ up to Low SK1 2DW up to Low SK1 2ED up to Low SK1 2GT up to Low SK1 2HH up to Low SK1 2JT up to Low SK1 2LA up to Low SK1 2LX up to Low SK1 2NR up to Low SK1 3BU up to Low SK1 4DU up to Low SK1 1EB up to Very low SK1 1EG up to Very low SK1 1JZ up to Very low SK1 1LF up to Very low SK1 1LH up to Very low SK1 1LN up to Very low SK1 2BL up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near SK1

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

149 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (90 at warning level or above), most recently 14 November 2025. 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

SK2 SK3 SK4 SK6 SK7 SK8 SK9 SK10

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.