Haydock Flood Risk
Haydock has a Low flood risk from rivers and the sea , with 0.3% of homes in a Medium or High band. The nearest gauge is 2 km away.
Haydock has 15,912 residents and 7,498 homes. Ranked 2661 of 7,114 in England for rivers and sea flood risk.
When Has Haydock Flooded Before?
The Environment Agency holds 4 recorded flood outlines covering Haydock, the most recent dated 26 December 2015.
Absence of a record is not evidence that a place has never flooded — the Environment Agency states that a lack of coverage does not mean an area has never flooded.
What Does Haydock's Flood Risk Classification Mean?
1.1% of postcodes in Haydock sit in Flood Zone 3, the planning band for land with a 1% or greater annual chance of river flooding or 0.5% or greater of sea flooding — and the map that draws it deliberately ignores flood defences.
The flood risk band for rivers and the sea is Low , with 0.3% of homes in a Medium or High band. Unlike the Flood Zone, the band counts the defences that are actually in place, which is why the two can describe the same street differently and both be right.
Which Postcode Districts Cover Haydock?
Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Haydock. The band is the one shared by most of that district's postcodes, so it describes the district rather than a single street — enter a full postcode in the checker for one address. A district can cover more than one town, and the district pages linked from the checker are keyed to the town that holds most of its postcodes.
| Postcode district | Postcodes here | Rivers and sea band | Surface water addresses |
|---|---|---|---|
| WA11 | 374 | Low | 897 |
| WA12 | 1 | Low | 1 |