Planes overhead in NG12
Rushcliffe, Nottingham. All 1,014 of its postcodes measured (12 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
From East Midlands
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way East Midlands flies, and that decides how many pass over NG12. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 58% of days
Up to 73
a day
Of its 1,014 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 79
- on an edge
- 4
- under 10
- 931
On a day it flies both ways, 20% of days
Up to 39
a day
Of its 1,014 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 10
- on an edge
- 5
- under 10
- 999
On a day it flies east, 22% of days
Up to 2
a day
Of its 1,014 postcodes:
- under 10
- 1,014
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 west58% of days | Both ways20% of days | Flying east22% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| NG12 180 postcodes | 80 under 10 | 80 under 10 | 80 under 10 |
| NG12 2195 postcodes | 195 under 10 | 195 under 10 | 195 under 10 |
| NG12 3301 postcodes | 301 under 10 | 301 under 10 | 301 under 10 |
| NG12 4181 postcodes | 53 at 10 to 99 | 181 under 10 | 181 under 10 |
| NG12 5257 postcodes | 26 at 10 to 99 | 10 at 10 to 99 | 257 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.
1 of its postcodes have a position ONS estimates, so their figures may be for a spot a few hundred metres away.
Over 57 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 NG12
NG2 NG11 NG7 NG8 NG9 LE14 LE12 DE74
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for East Midlands. 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.