The graph below shows the number of complaints made about noise to Environmental Health authorities in the city of Newtown between 1980 and 1996 The graph below shows the number of complaints made about noise to Environmental Health authorities in the city of Newtown between 1980 and 1996

The given graph illustrates the sum of complaints raised to Newtown's Environmental Health authorities regarding

noise

in the timespan between 1980 and 1996.

Overall

, after 16 years, the household was the only source of problems that showed a decreasing direction,

while

the other threes: road works, traffic commotion, and factories kept getting more criticisms reported from people of Newtown city. Despite being the biggest problem in 1980 with approximately 700 charges, domestic or household disturbance kept decreasing until 1996 with only 100 reports, which

also

led it into the

last

rank among others.

In contrast

to that,

noise

related to road works, told an interesting trend where it was stable in with the same number for the first 6 years (500) before the number surged and kept rising to above 1,000 (1,200) in 1996.

In addition

to that, It was placed as the biggest source of

noise

problems. Interestingly, the issue reported for traffic

noise

followed the same movement where it increased significantly from 300 to 600.

Similarly

, another increment tendency shown by factory complaints, but it is a little bit different where it was only escalated rapidly between 1980 (400) to 1982 (600), before gradually increasing to almost 700.