NE85 postcode district: Gateshead and around

NE85 is a postcode district in England, with 4 postcodes in use in 2 sectors. It has postcodes in Gateshead and Washington. It is split between 2 councils: Gateshead (3 postcodes) and Sunderland (1).

Postcodes in use
4
Sectors
2
Councils
2 councils
Places
2 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in NE85, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in NE85, by flood risk Of the 4 postcodes in NE85 that ONS places, 4 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Washington, Springwell. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 1 km. A1A194(M)A195 NE85 1AA: not on the flood risk listNE85 2BS: not on the flood risk list WashingtonSpringwell Map of every postcode in NE85, by flood risk Of the 4 postcodes in NE85 that ONS places, 4 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Washington, Springwell. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2 km. A167A194(M) WashingtonSpringwell
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 4

Of the 4 postcodes in NE85 that ONS places, 4 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 54.9320, longitude -1.5848. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

Is NE85 at risk of flooding?

None of the 4 postcodes in NE85 is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Postcodes in NE85

Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.

NE85 11 postcodeNE85 23 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in NE85

Towns and villages with postcodes in NE85, and how many each has here.

Gateshead postcodes,3Washington postcodes,1

Who covers NE85

How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.

Councils

What council am I in?

Constituencies

  • Gateshead Central and Whickham3
  • Washington and Gateshead South1

Police force areas

  • Northumbria4

Next to NE85

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"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after NE85 in the NE area.

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