Planes overhead in IG11
Barking and Dagenham, Redbridge and Newham, London. All 998 of its postcodes measured (25 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
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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 IG11. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 998 postcodes:
- under 10
- 998
On a day it flies both ways, 18% of days
Up to 19
a day
Of its 998 postcodes:
- on an edge
- 5
- under 10
- 993
On a day it flies east, 35% of days
Up to 42
a day
Of its 998 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 417
- on an edge
- 15
- under 10
- 566
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IG11 0290 postcodes | 290 under 10 | 5 on an edge | 175 at 10 to 99 |
| IG11 7271 postcodes | 271 under 10 | 271 under 10 | 6 at 10 to 99 |
| IG11 8181 postcodes | 181 under 10 | 181 under 10 | 18 at 10 to 99 |
| IG11 9256 postcodes | 256 under 10 | 256 under 10 | 218 at 10 to 99 |
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 IG11. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 36
a day
Of its 998 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 739
- under 10
- 259
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 17
a day
Of its 998 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 286
- under 10
- 712
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Under 1
a day, at all 998 of its postcodes
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IG11 0290 postcodes | 129 at 10 to 99 | 4 at 10 to 99 | 290 under 10 |
| IG11 7271 postcodes | 271 at 10 to 99 | 148 at 10 to 99 | 271 under 10 |
| IG11 8181 postcodes | 181 at 10 to 99 | 134 at 10 to 99 | 181 under 10 |
| IG11 9256 postcodes | 158 at 10 to 99 | 256 under 10 | 256 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.
2 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 IG11
RM9 E6 IG1 IG3 E12 SE28 RM10 E13
The councils
- Barking and Dagenham: noise and liveability score
- Redbridge: noise and liveability score
- Newham: noise and liveability score
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for London City and 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.