Does SR3 flood?

Yes — parts of the SR3 district carry real flood risk: 5 of its 16 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SR3 postcode district covers St Michael's, Silksworth, St Chad's, close to Houghton Le Spring, Chester-Le-Street, and surrounding villages in parts of Tyne and Wear and County Durham.

16 postcodes in the SR3 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 5 high, 11 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 SR3 postcodes are at risk?

SR3 3DP up to High SR3 3DR up to High SR3 3DS up to High SR3 3DT up to High SR3 3DW up to High SR3 1DN up to Low SR3 1LH up to Low SR3 1LW up to Low SR3 1NR up to Low SR3 1NS up to Low SR3 1PD up to Low SR3 1PE up to Low SR3 1PF up to Low SR3 1XF up to Low SR3 1XH up to Low SR3 1XQ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near SR3

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

Houghton Le Spring on the Moors Burn — 7 km away, highest on record 1.77m
Chester-Le-Street on the River Wear — 10.4 km away, highest on record 4.06m
Team Valley on the River Team — 13.7 km away, highest on record 1.74m
Durham New Elvet Bridge on the River Wear — 16.1 km away, highest on record 3.83m

310 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (78 at warning level or above), most recently 17 July 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Meadow Park, Ryhope, Sunderland (2008) — about 3.4 km from the centre

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

SR2 SR4 SR1 SR5 SR6 SR7 SR8 SR16

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.