Most and least people in loud road or rail noise: places in South East (2021)

Hastings had the highest share of people in loud road or rail noise of South East’s 64 councils in 2021, at 5.9%.

Arun had the lowest, at 0.4%. The middle council, Adur, had 2.4%.

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People in loud road or rail noise for every council in South East, highest first. Councils without a figure are listed last with the reason.
Rank	Council	Value
1	Hastings	5.9%
2	Surrey Heath	5.8%
3	Portsmouth	5.2%
4	Dartford	4.8%
5	Rushmoor	4.6%
6	Slough	4.5%
7	Spelthorne	4.4%
=8	Reading	4.2%
=8	Reigate and Banstead	4.2%
10	Brighton and Hove	4.0%
11	Guildford	3.9%
12	Southampton	3.8%
13	Runnymede	3.6%
=14	Hart	3.5%
=14	Tandridge	3.5%
=16	Canterbury	3.4%
=16	Woking	3.4%
=18	Elmbridge	3.3%
=18	Wokingham	3.3%
20	Folkestone and Hythe	3.1%
=21	Fareham	3.0%
=21	Oxford	3.0%
=21	Winchester	3.0%
=24	Buckinghamshire	2.9%
=24	Waverley	2.9%
=26	Eastbourne	2.8%
=26	Medway	2.8%
=26	Wealden	2.8%
29	Vale of White Horse	2.7%
=30	Sevenoaks	2.5%
=30	Tonbridge and Malling	2.5%
32	Adur	2.4%
=33	Crawley	2.3%
=33	East Hampshire	2.3%
=35	Havant	2.2%
=35	Lewes	2.2%
=35	Rother	2.2%
=38	Dover	2.1%
=38	Maidstone	2.1%
40	Mole Valley	2.0%
=41	Test Valley	1.9%
=41	Thanet	1.9%
=41	Worthing	1.9%
44	West Berkshire	1.8%
=45	Cherwell	1.6%
=45	Gosport	1.6%
=45	Isle of Wight	1.6%
=48	Ashford	1.5%
=48	Bracknell Forest	1.5%
=48	Gravesham	1.5%
=51	Basingstoke and Deane	1.4%
=51	Chichester	1.4%
=51	South Oxfordshire	1.4%
=54	Swale	1.3%
=54	Windsor and Maidenhead	1.3%
=56	Eastleigh	1.2%
=56	Horsham	1.2%
=56	New Forest	1.2%
59	Mid Sussex	1.0%
=60	Epsom and Ewell	0.8%
=60	Milton Keynes	0.8%
=60	Tunbridge Wells	0.8%
63	West Oxfordshire	0.7%
64	Arun	0.4%

Worked out by Open Index from Defra's strategic noise maps and census output areas. Source and method · See it on the map