Planes overhead in E11
Waltham Forest and Redbridge, London. All 805 of its postcodes measured (37 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
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From Heathrow
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Heathrow flies, and that decides how many pass over E11. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 173
a day
Of its 805 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 359
- 10 to 99
- 446
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 96
a day
Of its 805 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 799
- under 10
- 6
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 805 postcodes:
- under 10
- 805
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 west56% of days | Both ways15% of days | Flying east29% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| E11 1206 postcodes | 50 at 100+ | 205 at 10 to 99 | 206 under 10 |
| E11 2214 postcodes | 214 at 10 to 99 | 209 at 10 to 99 | 214 under 10 |
| E11 3194 postcodes | 120 at 100+ | 194 at 10 to 99 | 194 under 10 |
| E11 4191 postcodes | 189 at 100+ | 191 at 10 to 99 | 191 under 10 |
From London City
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way London City flies, and that decides how many pass over E11. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 62
a day
Of its 805 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 635
- on an edge
- 79
- under 10
- 91
On a day it flies both ways, 18% of days
Up to 36
a day
Of its 805 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 612
- on an edge
- 77
- under 10
- 116
On a day it flies east, 35% of days
Up to 3
a day
Of its 805 postcodes:
- under 10
- 805
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 ways18% of days | Flying east35% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| E11 1206 postcodes | 202 at 10 to 99 | 197 at 10 to 99 | 206 under 10 |
| E11 2214 postcodes | 213 at 10 to 99 | 213 at 10 to 99 | 214 under 10 |
| E11 3194 postcodes | 57 at 10 to 99 | 51 at 10 to 99 | 194 under 10 |
| E11 4191 postcodes | 163 at 10 to 99 | 151 at 10 to 99 | 191 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.
3 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 E11
E10 E7 E18 IG4 E20 E17 E15 E12
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Heathrow and London City. 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.