Planes overhead in B69
Sandwell, West Midlands. All 691 of its postcodes measured (38 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 B69. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 38% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 691 postcodes:
- under 10
- 691
On a day it flies both ways, 24% of days
Up to 10
a day
Of its 691 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 12
- under 10
- 679
On a day it flies east, 38% of days
Up to 17
a day
Of its 691 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 358
- under 10
- 333
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B69 1252 postcodes | 252 under 10 | 252 under 10 | 1 at 10 to 99 |
| B69 2137 postcodes | 137 under 10 | 137 under 10 | 86 at 10 to 99 |
| B69 3104 postcodes | 104 under 10 | 104 under 10 | 104 at 10 to 99 |
| B69 4173 postcodes | 173 under 10 | 12 at 10 to 99 | 142 at 10 to 99 |
| B69 925 postcodes | 25 under 10 | 25 under 10 | 25 at 10 to 99 |
1 of its postcodes have a position ONS estimates, so their figures may be for a spot a few hundred metres away.
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 B69
B70 B68 DY4 B67 B71 B66 B21 WS10
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.