Planes overhead in WS10
Sandwell and Walsall, West Midlands. All 893 of its postcodes measured (39 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
From Birmingham
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Birmingham flies, and that decides how many pass over WS10. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 38% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 893 postcodes:
- under 10
- 893
On a day it flies both ways, 24% of days
Up to 16
a day
Of its 893 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 791
- under 10
- 102
On a day it flies east, 38% of days
Up to 25
a day
Of its 893 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 892
- under 10
- 1
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 west38% of days | Both ways24% of days | Flying east38% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| WS10 0223 postcodes | 223 under 10 | 199 at 10 to 99 | 222 at 10 to 99 |
| WS10 7170 postcodes | 170 under 10 | 170 at 10 to 99 | 170 at 10 to 99 |
| WS10 8265 postcodes | 265 under 10 | 187 at 10 to 99 | 265 at 10 to 99 |
| WS10 9235 postcodes | 235 under 10 | 235 at 10 to 99 | 235 at 10 to 99 |
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 WS10
WS2 B71 WS1 WV13 DY4 WV14 WS5 B70
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Birmingham. 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.