Austin noise 311 requests
Noise 311 requests filed in Austin since January 2021.
Current release
Data through April 30, 2026
Data from January 2021 through April 30, 2026
Source data: Socrata ↗
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Total Requests
78.9K
in the noise category
Latest Month
236
April 2026
Share of total
5.6%
of all Austin 311 requests
Median Resolution
48m
half of requests close faster
Monthly noise requests
How many noise 311 requests Austin residents file each month.
How this category is defined
What counts as noise: Noise complaints of all kinds: residential parties, commercial venues, construction, traffic, aircraft, and barking dogs.
In Austin’s raw 311 data, the following 2 service_type values are counted as noise:
- APD - Non Emergency Noise/Alarm
- DSD - Outdoor Commercial Venue Music Complaint
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <austin_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'APD - Non Emergency Noise/Alarm',
'DSD - Outdoor Commercial Venue Music Complaint'
)Analyst tip: NYC dominates this category with the 'Noise - *' variants — Residential, Street/Sidewalk, Commercial, Vehicle, Helicopter, Park, House of Worship — plus the bare 'Noise' type. Calgary uses 'Bylaw - Noise Concerns', 'Bylaw - Disturbance and Behavioural Concerns', and 'AS - Animal Noise' (which is the one case where we fold animal-noise complaints into the noise category rather than animals). San Francisco, Austin, Boston, and Buffalo all have multiple noise-specific service types: San Francisco uses a single 'Noise'; Austin splits between 'DSD - Outdoor Commercial Venue Music Complaint' and the much larger 'APD - Non Emergency Noise/Alarm'; Boston splits across 'Loud Parties/Music/People', 'Work Hours-Loud Noise Complaints', 'Undefined Noise Disturbance', 'Animal Noise Disturbances', 'Automotive Noise Disturbance', and 'Rooftop & Mechanical Disturbances'; Buffalo uses 'Excessive Noise'. Chicago publishes 'Aircraft Noise Complaint' but without lat/lng, which is why Chicago doesn't get a noise heatmap.
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from Austin’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through April 30, 2026. Category assignment uses an AI-generated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.austintexas.gov.