Planes overhead in E14
Tower Hamlets, London. All 1,793 of its postcodes measured (112 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 E14. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 190
a day
Of its 1,793 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 1,788
- 10 to 99
- 5
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 105
a day
Of its 1,793 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 41
- 10 to 99
- 1,752
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 2
a day
Of its 1,793 postcodes:
- under 10
- 1,793
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| E14 0283 postcodes | 283 at 100+ | 283 at 10 to 99 | 283 under 10 |
| E14 230 postcodes | 30 at 100+ | 30 at 10 to 99 | 30 under 10 |
| E14 3284 postcodes | 284 at 100+ | 41 at 100+ | 284 under 10 |
| E14 445 postcodes | 45 at 100+ | 45 at 10 to 99 | 45 under 10 |
| E14 560 postcodes | 60 at 100+ | 60 at 10 to 99 | 60 under 10 |
| E14 6252 postcodes | 252 at 100+ | 252 at 10 to 99 | 252 under 10 |
| E14 7270 postcodes | 265 at 100+ | 270 at 10 to 99 | 270 under 10 |
| E14 8207 postcodes | 207 at 100+ | 207 at 10 to 99 | 207 under 10 |
| E14 9362 postcodes | 362 at 100+ | 362 at 10 to 99 | 362 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 E14. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 64
a day
Of its 1,793 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 679
- on an edge
- 270
- under 10
- 844
On a day it flies both ways, 18% of days
Up to 65
a day
Of its 1,793 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 794
- on an edge
- 214
- under 10
- 785
On a day it flies east, 35% of days
Up to 64
a day
Of its 1,793 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 316
- on an edge
- 275
- under 10
- 1,202
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| E14 0283 postcodes | 177 at 10 to 99 | 153 at 10 to 99 | 62 at 10 to 99 |
| E14 230 postcodes | 30 at 10 to 99 | 29 at 10 to 99 | 13 at 10 to 99 |
| E14 3284 postcodes | 1 on an edge | 284 under 10 | 284 under 10 |
| E14 445 postcodes | 5 at 10 to 99 | 25 at 10 to 99 | 25 at 10 to 99 |
| E14 560 postcodes | 25 at 10 to 99 | 31 at 10 to 99 | 31 at 10 to 99 |
| E14 6252 postcodes | 249 at 10 to 99 | 232 at 10 to 99 | 2 at 10 to 99 |
| E14 7270 postcodes | 104 at 10 to 99 | 141 at 10 to 99 | 31 at 10 to 99 |
| E14 8207 postcodes | 17 at 10 to 99 | 114 at 10 to 99 | 108 at 10 to 99 |
| E14 9362 postcodes | 72 at 10 to 99 | 69 at 10 to 99 | 44 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.
9 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 E14
E3 SE16 SE10 SE8 E1W E1 E16 SE14
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.