Does SR5 flood?

Yes — parts of the SR5 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 2 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SR5 postcode district covers Southwick, close to Houghton Le Spring, Cullercoats, Chester-Le-Street, and surrounding villages in parts of Tyne and Wear and County Durham.

2 postcodes in the SR5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 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 SR5 postcodes are at risk?

SR5 2AL up to High SR5 2BS up to High

Rivers and flooding history near SR5

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

Houghton Le Spring on the Moors Burn — 9.5 km away, highest on record 1.77m
Chester-Le-Street on the River Wear — 11.9 km away, highest on record 4.06m
Team Valley on the River Team — 13.1 km away, highest on record 1.74m
Crag Hall on the Ouse Burn — 15.9 km away, highest on record 1.79m

309 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (77 at warning level or above), most recently 17 July 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

No recorded flood extent is mapped near this district's centre. No recorded outline near the district means no flood was mapped here, which is not evidence none happened: the Environment Agency mapped only some floods, mapping effort rose sharply after about 2000, and surface-water flooding is largely absent from this record.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

SR4 SR6 SR3 SR7 SR2 SR8 SR1 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.