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Sustainable consumption and
production
Natural resource protection and enhancing the environment
31. Flooding
Number of properties in areas of flooding, 2004 to 2006
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- In England and Wales an estimated 2.3million properties (9 per cent of all properties) lie in areas at risk of flooding in 2006. Of these, just over 500,000 are in areas where the risk of flooding is greater than a 1 in 75 chance in any year.
- Risks are the likelihood of flooding occurring given existing flood defences and do not reflect the extent to which flooding may be serious enough to cause damage.
- To compile this indicator the Environment Agency used a National Property dataset based on the extent of properties in 2005. It does not therefore take account of the properties built after 2004.
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Updated: 30 July 2009