Planes overhead in RM10
Barking and Dagenham, London. All 568 of its postcodes measured (15 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
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 RM10. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 568 postcodes:
- under 10
- 568
On a day it flies both ways, 18% of days
Up to 23
a day
Of its 568 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 378
- on an edge
- 69
- under 10
- 121
On a day it flies east, 35% of days
Up to 46
a day
Of its 568 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 432
- on an edge
- 66
- under 10
- 70
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM10 7192 postcodes | 192 under 10 | 101 at 10 to 99 | 121 at 10 to 99 |
| RM10 8207 postcodes | 207 under 10 | 165 at 10 to 99 | 181 at 10 to 99 |
| RM10 9169 postcodes | 169 under 10 | 112 at 10 to 99 | 130 at 10 to 99 |
Also counted here: Heathrow, at most 6 a day over any of its postcodes.
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.
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 RM10
RM9 RM13 RM7 RM12 RM6 IG3 IG11 RM1
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for London City. 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.