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n-earshot gives every address in Australia a free noise score from 0 to 100, and an Air score, built from public data. Each month it ranks the country's noisiest and quietest suburbs. Everything here may be quoted, with a link to n-earshot.com.
The latest rankings (October 2026)
- Australia's noisiest suburb: South Wharf, Victoria, scoring 92 out of 100.
- Australia's quietest: Captain Creek, Queensland, scoring 0.
- Ranked from 5,336 suburbs with 300 or more homes.
By capital city
- Sydney: noisiest Haymarket (88), quietest Berkshire Park (1)
- Melbourne: noisiest South Wharf (92), quietest Eden Park (1)
- Brisbane: noisiest Bowen Hills (71), quietest Wights Mountain (0)
- Perth: noisiest Jandakot (58), quietest Brigadoon (0)
- Adelaide: noisiest West Richmond (62), quietest Macdonald Park (3)
- Canberra: noisiest Symonston (72), quietest Fraser (6)
- Hobart: noisiest Dynnyrne (46), quietest Acton Park (1)
- Darwin: noisiest The Narrows (54), quietest Wagait Beach (2)
The full lists, with each suburb's main source of noise: Australia's noisiest and quietest suburbs. Every suburb has its own page under Suburbs.
Story angles we can help with
- Any capital city's ten noisiest and quietest suburbs, or a region's.
- A particular suburb: its typical score, what makes the noise and when it is loudest.
- What drives noise in a city: traffic, trains, nightlife, ports, industry or aircraft.
- How the rankings change from month to month.
Ask for any of these, or for figures we have not published, at info@n-earshot.com.
How the figures are made
- A suburb's score is the median of the free scores of 100 of its homes (ground floor, facing the road), the same homes each month. Only suburbs with 300 or more homes are ranked.
- Each home's score combines tracked flights, road traffic counts, train and tram timetables, licensed venues and crowd precincts, industry, ports, power lines and residents' ratings, all from public data.
- The scores are estimates of typical noise, not sound measurements. A suburb's score is its typical home's: streets within it can be much louder or quieter.
- The Air score measures the pollution sources near a home, not health. Bushfire smoke is left out.
Every source and formula: how the score works.
About n-earshot
n-earshot is an independent Australian service, on the web at n-earshot.com and as an app for iPhone and Android. Anyone can check the noise and Air score of any address for free; a Moving Pass (A$14.99 for 90 days) opens full reports with the evidence behind each number. It is not a government service and is not affiliated with any government agency. It is operated by LLM Family Investments Pty Ltd (ACN 610 504 482) as trustee for the LLM Family Trust.
Contact
Media enquiries: info@n-earshot.com
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