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Annoyed Ottawa residents — especially those in the Rideau-Vanier ward — are most peeved when it comes to others’ music.

The 2017 log of complaints for city hall’s 311 service shows that of the 10,376 noise complaints filed over the year, the most frequent beef was related to music.

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More than 5,000 times, the call centre received information from people so annoyed by music, they felt compelled to make a fuss.

If it wasn’t music, it was the sound of construction that made people’s ears bleed.

The ward with the most noise complaints in 2017 was the central-east ward of Rideau-Vanier, which includes Sandy Hill, the ByWard Market, Lowertown and Vanier. Music drove 1,159 of the 2,048 complaints in Rideau-Vanier last year.

Rideau-Vanier didn’t have the highest population of the 23 wards in 2017.

That would be Barrhaven (based on the city’s ward population counts at the end of 2017), which sits in the lower half of the complaint rankings, and there, too, music is a terrible annoyance. Of the 253 noise complaints, 134 were related to music.