Planes overhead in DE74
North West Leicestershire and Rushcliffe, Leicester. All 335 of its postcodes measured (6 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 DE74. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 58% of days
Up to 82
a day
Of its 335 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 2
- on an edge
- 19
- under 10
- 314
On a day it flies both ways, 20% of days
Up to 80
a day
Of its 335 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 23
- on an edge
- 10
- under 10
- 302
On a day it flies east, 22% of days
Up to 81
a day
Of its 335 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 33
- on an edge
- 15
- under 10
- 287
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DE74 09 postcodes | 9 under 10 | 9 under 10 | 9 under 10 |
| DE74 2326 postcodes | 2 at 10 to 99 | 23 at 10 to 99 | 33 at 10 to 99 |
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 DE74
NG9 LE12 NG11 LE67 LE65 NG8 NG2 NG7
The councils
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.