Planes overhead in DE12
North West Leicestershire and Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicester. 352 of its 564 postcodes measured, the ones in North West Leicestershire and Hinckley and Bosworth (4 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
From East Midlands
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way East Midlands flies, and that decides how many pass over DE12. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 58% of days
Up to 31
a day
Of its 352 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 94
- under 10
- 258
On a day it flies both ways, 20% of days
Up to 29
a day
Of its 352 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 172
- under 10
- 180
On a day it flies east, 22% of days
Up to 33
a day
Of its 352 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 259
- under 10
- 93
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 west58% of days | Both ways20% of days | Flying east22% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| DE12 689 postcodes | 34 at 10 to 99 | 89 at 10 to 99 | 89 at 10 to 99 |
| DE12 7238 postcodes | 60 at 10 to 99 | 83 at 10 to 99 | 170 at 10 to 99 |
| DE12 825 postcodes | 25 under 10 | 25 under 10 | 25 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 DE12
LE65 LE67 CV13 DE74 LE6 LE9 LE12 B75
The councils
- North West Leicestershire: noise and liveability score
- Hinckley and Bosworth: noise and liveability score
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for East Midlands. 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.