Planes overhead in WS3
Walsall, West Midlands. 983 of its 995 postcodes measured, the ones in Walsall (8 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 WS3. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 38% of days
Under 1
a day, at all 983 of its postcodes
On a day it flies both ways, 24% of days
Up to 16
a day
Of its 983 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 94
- under 10
- 889
On a day it flies east, 38% of days
Up to 32
a day
Of its 983 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 498
- under 10
- 485
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WS3 1246 postcodes | 246 under 10 | 246 under 10 | 242 at 10 to 99 |
| WS3 2264 postcodes | 264 under 10 | 264 under 10 | 47 at 10 to 99 |
| WS3 3257 postcodes | 257 under 10 | 257 under 10 | 7 at 10 to 99 |
| WS3 4171 postcodes | 171 under 10 | 72 at 10 to 99 | 157 at 10 to 99 |
| WS3 545 postcodes | 45 under 10 | 22 at 10 to 99 | 45 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 WS3
WS4 WS2 WV12 WS1 WS9 WS8 WV13 WS5
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.