Planes overhead in N14
Enfield and Barnet, London. All 655 of its postcodes measured (35 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 N14. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 37
a day
Of its 655 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 540
- under 10
- 115
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 28
a day
Of its 655 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 638
- under 10
- 17
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 31
a day
Of its 655 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 606
- under 10
- 49
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| N14 4241 postcodes | 126 at 10 to 99 | 224 at 10 to 99 | 207 at 10 to 99 |
| N14 5152 postcodes | 152 at 10 to 99 | 152 at 10 to 99 | 152 at 10 to 99 |
| N14 6148 postcodes | 148 at 10 to 99 | 148 at 10 to 99 | 133 at 10 to 99 |
| N14 7114 postcodes | 114 at 10 to 99 | 114 at 10 to 99 | 114 at 10 to 99 |
Also counted here: Stansted, at most 4 a day over any of its postcodes.
1 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 N14
N21 N11 EN4 N13 N20 EN2 N12 N22
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.