Planes overhead in RM5
Havering, Barking and Dagenham and Redbridge, London. All 380 of its postcodes measured, 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 RM5. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (47% of days): up to 39 a day; of its 380 postcodes, 239 at 10 to 99, 72 on an edge, 69 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (18% of days): up to 22 a day; of its 380 postcodes, 233 at 10 to 99, 66 on an edge, 81 under 10
- On a day it flies east (35% of days): up to 1 a day; of its 380 postcodes, 380 under 10
The table counts the postcodes of each sector by how many planes pass over them a day: 100 or more, 10 to 99, or under 10.
| Sector | Flying west47% of days | Both ways18% of days | Flying east35% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM5 2176 postcodes | 83 at 10 to 9937 on an edge56 under 10 | 81 at 10 to 9930 on an edge65 under 10 | 176 under 10 |
| RM5 3204 postcodes | 156 at 10 to 9935 on an edge13 under 10 | 152 at 10 to 9936 on an edge16 under 10 | 204 under 10 |
Also counted here: Heathrow, at most 2 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.
Over 82 of its postcodes, other flying passes too, from airfields, helicopters and airports we cannot check against official counts, so few planes from the airports we count does not mean a quiet sky there.
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.
Near RM5
RM1 RM7 RM2 RM6 RM3 RM11 IG6 IG3
The councils
- Havering: noise and liveability score
- Barking and Dagenham: noise and liveability score
- Redbridge: noise and liveability score
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.