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UK Towns & Cities Ranked by Noise Level

Illustrative values across 100 UK towns and cities, sorted by the site's model assignments. Click any town to see postcode-level data.

100
Towns & Cities
29 dB
Lowest Assigned Value
Shrewsbury
65 dB
Highest Assigned Value
Luton

Illustrative values assigned from postcode lookup groups and preset ranges; not measured or validated predictions. How these values are produced.

# Town/City County Avg dB Rating Postcodes
1 Shrewsbury Mid Wales 29 dB Very Quiet 25
2 Plymouth Devon 30 dB Very Quiet 35
3 Truro Cornwall 30 dB Very Quiet 23
4 Darlington County Durham 32 dB Very Quiet 17
5 Wrexham North Wales 32 dB Very Quiet 67
6 Torquay Devon 34 dB Very Quiet 14
7 Dorchester Dorset 35 dB Very Quiet 11
8 Exeter Devon 35 dB Very Quiet 33
9 Llandrindod Wells Powys 35 dB Very Quiet 8
10 Berwick Upon Tweed Unknown 36 dB Very Quiet 1
11 Carlisle Cumbria 36 dB Very Quiet 28
12 Cornhill On Tweed Unknown 36 dB Very Quiet 1
13 Newcastleton Unknown 38 dB Very Quiet 1
14 Taunton Somerset 41 dB Quiet 24
15 York North Yorkshire 43 dB Quiet 29
16 Harrogate North Yorkshire 46 dB Quiet 5
17 Northampton Northamptonshire 47 dB Quiet 19
18 Hereford Herefordshire 48 dB Quiet 9
19 Bournemouth Dorset 49 dB Quiet 26
20 Blackburn Lancashire 50 dB Moderate 13
21 Ipswich Suffolk 50 dB Moderate 33
22 Lancaster Lancashire 50 dB Moderate 23
23 Bath Somerset 51 dB Moderate 19
24 Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire 52 dB Moderate 24
25 Newport Gwent 52 dB Moderate 18
26 Cardiff Cardiff 54 dB Moderate 36
27 Colchester Essex 54 dB Moderate 16
28 Worcester Worcestershire 54 dB Moderate 15
29 Blackpool Lancashire 55 dB Moderate 8
30 Gloucester Gloucestershire 55 dB Moderate 27
31 Leicester Leicestershire 55 dB Moderate 21
32 Lincoln Lincolnshire 55 dB Moderate 13
33 Middlesbrough Teesside 55 dB Moderate 29
34 Norwich Norfolk 55 dB Moderate 35
35 Peterborough Cambridgeshire 55 dB Moderate 35
36 Tunbridge Wells Kent 55 dB Moderate 40
37 Bradford West Yorkshire 56 dB Moderate 24
38 Brighton East Sussex 56 dB Moderate 30
39 Cambridge Cambridgeshire 56 dB Moderate 16
40 Chester Cheshire 56 dB Moderate 24
41 Crewe Cheshire 56 dB Moderate 12
42 Doncaster South Yorkshire 56 dB Moderate 32
43 Dudley West Midlands 56 dB Moderate 14
44 Guildford Surrey 56 dB Moderate 38
45 Huddersfield West Yorkshire 56 dB Moderate 9
46 Hull East Yorkshire 56 dB Moderate 20
47 Oldham Greater Manchester 56 dB Moderate 16
48 Oxford Oxfordshire 56 dB Moderate 26
49 Preston Lancashire 56 dB Moderate 11
50 Salisbury Wiltshire 56 dB Moderate 11
51 Stockport Cheshire 56 dB Moderate 19
52 Sutton Greater London 56 dB Moderate 7
53 Swansea West Wales 56 dB Moderate 51
54 Wakefield West Yorkshire 56 dB Moderate 17
55 Wigan Greater Manchester 56 dB Moderate 8
56 Bristol Bristol 57 dB Moderate 37
57 Canterbury Kent 57 dB Moderate 21
58 Coventry West Midlands 57 dB Moderate 24
59 Croydon Greater London 57 dB Moderate 9
60 Derby Derbyshire 57 dB Moderate 23
61 Durham County Durham 57 dB Moderate 9
62 Kingston Upon Thames Greater London 57 dB Moderate 24
63 London Greater London 57 dB Moderate 171
64 Nottingham Nottinghamshire 57 dB Moderate 30
65 Portsmouth Hampshire 57 dB Moderate 34
66 Reading Berkshire 57 dB Moderate 30
67 Westcliff On Sea Essex 57 dB Moderate 17
68 Stevenage Hertfordshire 57 dB Moderate 19
69 Stoke On Trent Staffordshire 57 dB Moderate 21
70 Telford Shropshire 57 dB Moderate 13
71 Walsall West Midlands 57 dB Moderate 15
72 Wolverhampton West Midlands 57 dB Moderate 16
73 Birmingham West Midlands 58 dB Moderate 76
74 Bury Greater Manchester 58 dB Moderate 10
75 Bromley Greater London 58 dB Moderate 8
76 Burnham On Crouch Essex 58 dB Moderate 25
77 Halifax West Yorkshire 58 dB Moderate 7
78 Wembley Greater London 58 dB Moderate 10
79 Liverpool Merseyside 58 dB Moderate 40
80 Rochester Kent 58 dB Moderate 20
81 Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire 58 dB Moderate 26
82 Newcastle Upon Tyne Tyne And Wear 58 dB Moderate 59
83 Redhill Surrey 58 dB Moderate 20
84 Sheffield South Yorkshire 58 dB Moderate 45
85 Southampton Hampshire 58 dB Moderate 23
86 St Albans Hertfordshire 58 dB Moderate 10
87 Sunderland Tyne And Wear 58 dB Moderate 8
88 Swindon Wiltshire 58 dB Moderate 18
89 Dartford Greater London 59 dB Moderate 18
90 Ilford Greater London 59 dB Moderate 11
91 Leeds West Yorkshire 59 dB Moderate 29
92 Warrington Cheshire 59 dB Moderate 16
93 Romford Greater London 60 dB Noisy 20
94 Iver Berkshire 60 dB Noisy 10
95 Twickenham Greater London 60 dB Noisy 19
96 Enfield Greater London 61 dB Noisy 11
97 Manchester Greater Manchester 61 dB Noisy 42
98 Southall Greater London 63 dB Noisy 11
99 Watford Greater London 64 dB Noisy 11
100 Luton Bedfordshire 65 dB Noisy 7

Noise Levels Across UK Towns

This table sorts generated assignments, not measured environmental noise. It cannot show which town or neighbourhood is quieter in real conditions.

Each town page lists the illustrative value assigned to every postcode district. Do not use these values to assess a property or make a decision about a specific home.

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