Planes overhead in WS2
Walsall, West Midlands. All 711 of its postcodes measured (28 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 WS2. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 38% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 711 postcodes:
- under 10
- 711
On a day it flies both ways, 24% of days
Up to 13
a day
Of its 711 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 304
- under 10
- 407
On a day it flies east, 38% of days
Up to 20
a day
Of its 711 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 703
- under 10
- 8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WS2 0141 postcodes | 141 under 10 | 9 at 10 to 99 | 141 at 10 to 99 |
| WS2 7155 postcodes | 155 under 10 | 155 under 10 | 147 at 10 to 99 |
| WS2 8216 postcodes | 216 under 10 | 96 at 10 to 99 | 216 at 10 to 99 |
| WS2 9199 postcodes | 199 under 10 | 199 at 10 to 99 | 199 at 10 to 99 |
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 WS2
WS1 WV12 WS10 WS3 WV13 WS4 WS5 B71
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.