Planes overhead in NG9
Broxtowe and City of Nottingham, Nottingham. All 1,596 of its postcodes measured (56 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 NG9. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 58% of days
Up to 10
a day
Of its 1,596 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 1
- under 10
- 1,595
On a day it flies both ways, 20% of days
Up to 6
a day
Of its 1,596 postcodes:
- under 10
- 1,596
On a day it flies east, 22% of days
Up to 3
a day
Of its 1,596 postcodes:
- under 10
- 1,596
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NG9 1225 postcodes | 225 under 10 | 225 under 10 | 225 under 10 |
| NG9 2277 postcodes | 277 under 10 | 277 under 10 | 277 under 10 |
| NG9 3248 postcodes | 1 at 10 to 99 | 248 under 10 | 248 under 10 |
| NG9 4129 postcodes | 129 under 10 | 129 under 10 | 129 under 10 |
| NG9 5173 postcodes | 173 under 10 | 173 under 10 | 173 under 10 |
| NG9 6217 postcodes | 217 under 10 | 217 under 10 | 217 under 10 |
| NG9 7116 postcodes | 116 under 10 | 116 under 10 | 116 under 10 |
| NG9 8190 postcodes | 190 under 10 | 190 under 10 | 190 under 10 |
| NG9 921 postcodes | 21 under 10 | 21 under 10 | 21 under 10 |
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 NG9
NG8 NG11 NG7 NG2 DE74 NG12 LE12 LE67
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.