Planes overhead in BD22
Bradford, West Yorkshire. 968 of its 1,069 postcodes measured, the ones in Bradford (4 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
From Leeds Bradford
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Leeds Bradford flies, and that decides how many pass over BD22. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 11
a day
Of its 968 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 58
- under 10
- 910
On a day it flies both ways, 26% of days
Up to 8
a day
Of its 968 postcodes:
- under 10
- 968
On a day it flies east, 27% of days
Up to 6
a day
Of its 968 postcodes:
- under 10
- 968
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 west47% of days | Both ways26% of days | Flying east27% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| BD22 0125 postcodes | 125 under 10 | 125 under 10 | 125 under 10 |
| BD22 6190 postcodes | 25 at 10 to 99 | 190 under 10 | 190 under 10 |
| BD22 7248 postcodes | 33 at 10 to 99 | 248 under 10 | 248 under 10 |
| BD22 8200 postcodes | 200 under 10 | 200 under 10 | 200 under 10 |
| BD22 9205 postcodes | 205 under 10 | 205 under 10 | 205 under 10 |
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 BD22
BD21 BD20 BD16 BD18 BD17 BD7 LS29 BD6
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Leeds Bradford. 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.