Ottawa noise 311 requests
Noise 311 requests filed in Ottawa since January 2025.
Current release
Data through April 12, 2026
Data from January 2025 through April 12, 2026
Source data: Open data ↗
File a 311 request in Ottawa → This page shows historical data only.
Total Requests
8.5K
in the noise category
Latest Month
226
April 2026
Share of total
1.8%
of all Ottawa 311 requests
Median Resolution
3.0d
half of requests close faster
Monthly noise requests
How many noise 311 requests Ottawa 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 Ottawa’s raw 311 data, the following 2 service_type values are counted as noise:
- Bylaw Services
- Bylaw Services
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <ottawa_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Bylaw Services',
'Bylaw Services'
)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 Ottawa’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2025 through April 12, 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 open.ottawa.ca.