Planes overhead in B24
Birmingham, West Midlands. All 563 of its postcodes measured (14 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
From Birmingham
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Birmingham flies, and that decides how many pass over B24. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 38% of days
Up to 128
a day
Of its 563 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 10
- 10 to 99
- 134
- on an edge
- 14
- under 10
- 405
On a day it flies both ways, 24% of days
Up to 105
a day
Of its 563 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 133
- on an edge
- 105
- under 10
- 325
On a day it flies east, 38% of days
Up to 122
a day
Of its 563 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 77
- on an edge
- 113
- under 10
- 373
Each sector's bar splits its postcodes by how many planes pass over them a day; the figure above it counts those in the busiest band the sector reaches. The list above gives the whole district's counts.
| Sector | Flying west38% of days | Both ways24% of days | Flying east38% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| B24 0214 postcodes | 10 at 100+ | 63 at 10 to 99 | 14 at 100+ |
| B24 8144 postcodes | 144 under 10 | 144 under 10 | 144 under 10 |
| B24 9205 postcodes | 66 at 10 to 99 | 70 at 10 to 99 | 63 at 100+ |
On an edge: the postcode is on the edge of a flight path, where a few metres decide whether a plane counts as overhead, and the fewest and the most within 100 m of it fall in different bands.
What counts as overhead
Overhead means more than halfway up the sky (48.5 degrees or more) and below 7,000 ft, the CAA's definition of an overflight (CAP 1498). A day counts as one way when 80% of its flights used that way. PO boxes and other postcodes for organisations that receive a lot of post are left out: they sit at a delivery office or a business, not at homes.
Near B24
B23 B35 B76 B73 B36 B34 B44 B33
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Birmingham. Flight tracks: adsb.lol (ODbL 1.0); Weather at each airport: Iowa Environmental Mesonet; Ground heights: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right; Postcode positions: ONS National Statistics Postcode Lookup (OGL). Licence: Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0.