Waltham Cross Flood Risk
Waltham Cross has a Low flood risk from rivers and the sea , with 1.4% of homes in a Medium or High band. The nearest gauge is 0.5 km away.
Waltham Cross has 11,793 residents and 5,241 homes. Ranked 1632 of 7,114 in England for rivers and sea flood risk.
What Is The River Level Near Waltham Cross Right Now?
Read from the Environment Agency flood-monitoring feed at 20 Sept, 14:34 UTC. The highest level on record here is 1.207 m , reached on 15 November 2020.
This river has too few gauges for its own page
When Has Waltham Cross Flooded Before?
The Environment Agency holds 6 recorded flood outlines covering Waltham Cross, the most recent dated 12 December 2000.
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 Waltham Cross's Flood Risk Classification Mean?
6.9% of postcodes in Waltham Cross 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 1.4% 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 Waltham Cross?
Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Waltham Cross. 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: every district here overlaps another place, so the checker may name a neighbouring town for some of these postcodes.
| Postcode district | Postcodes here | Rivers and sea band | Surface water addresses |
|---|---|---|---|
| EN8 | 248 | Low | 585 |
| EN9 | 12 | Medium | 1 |