Most and least people in loud road or rail noise: places in West Midlands (2021)
North Warwickshire had the highest share of people in loud road or rail noise of West Midlands’s 30 councils in 2021, at 5.5%.
Worcester had the lowest, at 1.2%. The middle council, Coventry, had 2.5%.
See it on the map| Rank | Council | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Warwickshire | 5.5% |
| 2 | Sandwell | 4.5% |
| 3 | Solihull | 4.2% |
| 4 | Wolverhampton | 4.1% |
| 5 | Nuneaton and Bedworth | 3.8% |
| 6 | Birmingham | 3.5% |
| =7 | Newcastle-under-Lyme | 3.2% |
| =7 | Walsall | 3.2% |
| 9 | Rugby | 3.0% |
| 10 | Tamworth | 2.9% |
| =11 | East Staffordshire | 2.7% |
| =11 | Stafford | 2.7% |
| =11 | Stoke-on-Trent | 2.7% |
| 14 | Dudley | 2.6% |
| =15 | Coventry | 2.5% |
| =15 | Staffordshire Moorlands | 2.5% |
| =15 | Stratford-on-Avon | 2.5% |
| =18 | Redditch | 2.4% |
| =18 | Wyre Forest | 2.4% |
| =20 | Herefordshire | 2.3% |
| =20 | Telford and Wrekin | 2.3% |
| 22 | Malvern Hills | 2.1% |
| =23 | Cannock Chase | 2.0% |
| =23 | Warwick | 2.0% |
| 25 | Wychavon | 1.8% |
| =26 | Bromsgrove | 1.7% |
| =26 | Lichfield | 1.7% |
| =28 | Shropshire | 1.5% |
| =28 | South Staffordshire | 1.5% |
| 30 | Worcester | 1.2% |
Worked out by Open Index from Defra's strategic noise maps and census output areas. Source and method · See it on the map