Noise in Ile-de-France
What is Ile-de-France?
Ile-de-France is one of the 26 French regions. Ile-de-France is made up of 8 departments.
Noise perception
71% of the Ile-de-France inhabitants declare they are annoyed by noise at home. This is one of the findings of the study published in March 2009 by the Regional Health Observatory (ORS) in Ile-de-France.
Noise policies
Regularly denounced as the nuisance most felt by Ile-de-France inhabitants in their daily life, noise remains, by nature, complex to assess, reduce and avoid.
The action plans already published
After the diagnoses made thanks to the strategic noise maps, the 2002/49/EC directive and its transposition to French law require the authorities in charge to draw up action plans.
Key data
Noise is a very significant source of annoyance in Ile-de-France due to the high concentration of housing and the exceptional density of transportation infrastructures. Among disturbances of quality of life, noise is the first nuisance mentioned.
Noise assessment
Based on the first aggregation of the noise maps of the Paris agglomeration, made for the 2002/49/EC directive, nearly 20% of the population of the Paris agglomeration is exposed to noise levels above limit values.
The noise maps already published
Here is the list of environmental noise maps that have been published within the Paris agglomeration as required by the 2002/49/EC European directive and its transposition into French law.