Planes overhead in B76
Birmingham, West Midlands. 428 of its 517 postcodes measured, the ones in Birmingham (12 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 B76. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 38% of days
Up to 130
a day
Of its 428 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 48
- 10 to 99
- 216
- on an edge
- 34
- under 10
- 130
On a day it flies both ways, 24% of days
Up to 60
a day
Of its 428 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 237
- on an edge
- 8
- under 10
- 183
On a day it flies east, 38% of days
Up to 3
a day
Of its 428 postcodes:
- under 10
- 428
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B76 1263 postcodes | 25 at 100+ | 138 at 10 to 99 | 263 under 10 |
| B76 2120 postcodes | 1 at 100+ | 56 at 10 to 99 | 120 under 10 |
| B76 945 postcodes | 22 at 100+ | 43 at 10 to 99 | 45 under 10 |
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.
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 B76
B35 B24 B73 B75 B36 B23 B34 B44
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.