San Francisco noise 311 requests
Noise 311 requests filed in San Francisco since April 2021.
Current release
Data through April 30, 2026
Data from April 2021 through April 30, 2026
Source data: Open data ↗
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Total Requests
24.0K
in the noise category
Latest Month
2.1K
April 2026
Share of total
0.6%
of all San Francisco 311 requests
Median Resolution
2.3d
half of requests close faster
Monthly noise requests
How many noise 311 requests San Francisco 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 San Francisco’s raw 311 data, the following 1 service_type are counted as 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 '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 San Francisco’s official open 311 data feed, covering April 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.sfgov.org.