The country's noisiest neighbours. Is your area raucous or harmonious?

Everybody needs good neighbours… but they don’t always get them.

With houses flying off the market, our client, Bankrate UK, has delved into official council data to find out where the country’s worst neighbours live based on noise complaints.

Armed with FOI requests from 75 councils across the UK, Bankrate has revealed some of the biggest neighbour grievances and where in the UK these noisy neighbours live.

Looking at the music, DIY and dog noise complaints each council received over the last three years, and working out how many complaints this equates to per 50,000 residents, the mortgage comparison experts have been able to find the top 10 most raucous neighbourhoods in the country, and of course the most harmonious. And the results might surprise you.

A full breakdown of the noisy neighbours per complaint can be found here: https://www.bankrate.com/uk/mortgages/neighbour-complaints

Assets can be found via this Dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1w0edbcyzp098oc/AAB67ZtfBLm8KXxpZ73pPnO0a?dl=0

The 10 noisiest neighbourhoods:

Local council	Total complaints per 50,000	Total complaints
East Cambridgeshire	2,782	4,999
Brighton and Hove City Council	2,169	12,620
Adur District Council	2,089	2,687
Belfast City Council	1,931	13,267
City and Council of Swansea	1,617	7,989
Coventry City Council	1,591	11,824
City of London	1,373	267
City of York	1,253	5,277
Dartford Borough Council	1,230	2,771
Dundee City Council	1,191	3,557

The 10 most harmonious neighbourhoods:

Local council	Total complaints per 50,000	Total complaints
Broadland District Council	6	17
Central Bedfordshire Council	9	51
Calderdale	28	120
Corby Borough Council	89	129
Carlisle District Council	123	267
Basildon District Council	129	484
Crawley Borough Council	179	403
City of Edinburgh	185	1,944
Derbyshire Dales	201	291
Argyll and Bute Council	213	366