Housing
Pulsating Noise Maps of Seattle, New York, and San Francisco
Trulia tracks five years of noise complaints in the three big cities.
There was a time when I couldn’t fall asleep without the sweet, soothing sound of honking cars and belting sirens. Crickets, meanwhile, would keep me awake all night. City noise, of course, isn’t a lullaby—it’s a nuisance and a health hazard. Having lived in quieter neighborhoods over the last couple of years, I’ve come to realize this.
Finding these muted enclaves just got a little easier with some pulsating new maps created by real estate website Trulia. The maps pinpoint the loudest neighborhoods in New York city, Seattle, and San Francisco, using noise complaint data from 2010 to 2015 in each city. Here’s Trulia on its mapping approach in a blog post: