Planes overhead in WV12
Walsall and Wolverhampton, West Midlands. All 496 of its postcodes measured (7 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 WV12. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 38% of days
Under 1
a day, at all 496 of its postcodes
On a day it flies both ways, 24% of days
Up to 7
a day
Of its 496 postcodes:
- under 10
- 496
On a day it flies east, 38% of days
Up to 11
a day
Of its 496 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 117
- under 10
- 379
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WV12 4207 postcodes | 207 under 10 | 207 under 10 | 117 at 10 to 99 |
| WV12 5289 postcodes | 289 under 10 | 289 under 10 | 289 under 10 |
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 WV12
WV13 WS2 WS3 WS10 WS1 WS4 WV14 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.