San Francisco noise 311 requests

How many 311 requests in the noise category residents of San Francisco have filed since April 2021.

Current release

Data through March 2026

Data from April 2021 through March 2026

Open data

Total Requests

23.0K

in the noise category

Latest Month

2.1K

March 2026

Share of total

0.6%

of all San Francisco 311 requests

Median Resolution

2.7d

half of requests close faster

Monthly noise requests

How many noise 311 requests San Francisco 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 San Francisco’s raw 311 feed, the following 1 service_type roll into noise:

  • Noise

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <san_francisco_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'Noise'
)

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.

See how noise is defined for every tracked city →

Source & provenance

Counts on this page are derived from San Francisco’s official open 311 data feed, covering April 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.sfgov.org.

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