Planes overhead in EN2
Enfield, London. 810 of its 812 postcodes measured, the ones in Enfield (22 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 EN2. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 9
a day
Of its 810 postcodes:
- under 10
- 810
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 16
a day
Of its 810 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 7
- under 10
- 803
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 34
a day
Of its 810 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 8
- under 10
- 802
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EN2 0197 postcodes | 197 under 10 | 197 under 10 | 197 under 10 |
| EN2 6129 postcodes | 129 under 10 | 129 under 10 | 129 under 10 |
| EN2 7189 postcodes | 189 under 10 | 189 under 10 | 189 under 10 |
| EN2 8210 postcodes | 210 under 10 | 7 at 10 to 99 | 8 at 10 to 99 |
| EN2 985 postcodes | 85 under 10 | 85 under 10 | 85 under 10 |
Also counted here: London City, at most 7 a day over any of its postcodes; Stansted, at most 5 a day over any of its postcodes; Luton, at most 1 a day over any of its postcodes.
Over 72 of its postcodes, other flying passes too, from airfields, helicopters and airports we cannot check against official counts, so few planes from the airports we count does not mean a quiet sky there.
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 EN2
EN1 N21 N14 EN3 N9 EN4 N13 N18
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Heathrow. 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.