NYC Residential Noise Complaints by Hour, Day and Borough

New Yorkers filed 432,431 residential noise complaints with 311 between October 1, 2025 and September 30, 2026. Complaints build through the evening and peak from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.. Weekends are far busier than weekdays. Loud music and parties make up 57% of all reports, and banging or pounding another 34%.

What this report counts

Each figure is a 311 service request with the complaint type “Noise - Residential,” the category for noise from inside homes and apartment buildings. Every one of these requests in the period was assigned to the NYPD. The city’s Noise Code page says DEP and the NYPD share enforcement of the Noise Code and that noise complaints are filed through 311, by phone or online. A request is a report, not proof that the noise broke the law. The data also does not say what police found when they responded.

Noise complaints peak late at night

Complaints climb steadily from late afternoon. The quietest hour was 7 a.m. to 8 a.m., with 8,849 complaints over the year. The busiest was 10 p.m. to 11 p.m., with 42,705, nearly five times as many. The four hours from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. account for 33% of all complaints, while the eight daytime hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. account for 22%. Hours are based on when the request was created, which is when someone reported it, not when the noise started.

Weekends are the loudest days

Sunday had the most complaints (87,909), followed by Saturday (82,975). Both are well above the weekday average of 52,309. Thu was the quietest day. Because days are counted from midnight, complaints made in the early hours of Sunday morning count toward Sunday. The weekend pattern holds when the single-address outlier described below is removed: Saturday and Sunday still make up 41% of the remaining complaints.

One address skews the totals

A single building address in Bronx ZIP 10466, recorded under two spellings, generated 65,676 requests in the year. That is 15.2% of the citywide total, and all but 3 of them were logged as loud music or a party. Most came in late 2025: ZIP 10466 logged 64,007 complaints from October to December 2025 and only a few hundred a month by mid-2026. This is why December 2025 looks like a spike in the citywide totals. Without that address, monthly totals stay in a fairly narrow band, from a low in Feb 26 to a high in May 26. We name ZIP codes, not specific addresses, in this report. Repeated reports about one place can come from one or a few callers, so they are not a measure of how many people were bothered.

Where complaints are concentrated

ZIP 10466 tops the list only because of that one address. With it removed, the ZIP had 4,925 complaints and the leader is 10456 in the Bronx (12,173). Bronx ZIPs fill most of the top 15. A few ZIPs are also driven by single buildings. In Brooklyn’s 11214, one address accounts for 8,399 of the ZIP’s 10,347 complaints. Across the city, complaints came from 74,724 distinct addresses, an average of 5.8 complaints each, and that average is pulled up by a few very high-volume addresses.

What kind of noise, by borough

Loud music and parties lead in the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island. In Brooklyn, banging and pounding (51,284) nearly matches music (51,790). The Bronx has the most music complaints by far, but 65,673 of its 115,379 came from the single address above. Without it, the Bronx had 49,706, a little below Brooklyn. Loud talking and loud TV complaints are much rarer everywhere.

Limits of this data

• Counts are reports, not people. One caller can file many requests about the same apartment, as the top address shows.
• No outcome data here. This report does not use the resolution field, so it says nothing about how police responded or whether any summons was issued.
• Not per capita. Areas with more apartments, or more people who use 311, will log more complaints.
• Data changes. 311 records are updated daily. Figures were pulled on 2026-10-12; the latest request in this category was created on 2026-10-10.

Method

We queried NYC Open Data dataset erm2-nwe9 on 2026-10-12 with SoQL, filtering to complaint_type = “Noise - Residential” and created dates from October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. We counted requests grouped by hour (date_extract_hh), day of week (date_extract_dow, where 0 is Sunday), month, descriptor, borough and incident ZIP, then grouped by address to find outliers. The exact query URLs are stored with this report’s data file.