Chicago noise 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the noise category residents of Chicago have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through March 2026
Data from January 2021 through March 2026
Total Requests
1.7M
in the noise category
Latest Month
35.0K
March 2026
Share of total
18.2%
of all Chicago 311 requests
Monthly noise requests
How many noise 311 requests Chicago residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as noise: Noise complaints of all kinds: residential parties, commercial venues, construction, traffic, aircraft, and barking dogs.
In Chicago’s raw 311 feed, the following 1 service_type roll into noise:
- Aircraft Noise Complaint
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <chicago_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Aircraft Noise Complaint'
)Analyst tip: NYC dominates this category with the four 'Noise - *' variants (Residential, Commercial, Street/Sidewalk, Vehicle) plus the bare 'Noise' type. Calgary uses 'Bylaw - Noise Concerns' and 'Bylaw - Disturbance and Behavioural Concerns'. Chicago has a dedicated 'Aircraft Noise Complaint' worth noting if you're analyzing airport-adjacent neighborhoods.
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from Chicago’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through March 2026. Category assignment uses a hand-curated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.cityofchicago.org.