Around 28 per cent of Germans felt in the year 2018 by traffic or neighbourhood noise pollution. Thus, Germany is the perceived noise nuisance within the EU, in second place, just behind Malta. The current data of the Federal Statistical office.
In Croatia, Hungary, Estonia and Bulgaria, the share of citizens who felt harassed by 2018 due to noise in the residential environment, in the EU comparison is the lowest, and is below ten per cent. The EU average was 18 percent. This is evident from the statistics, EU-SILC (European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions), the annual results income, poverty and living conditions in the EU provides the member States.
Environmental pollution stört also many German
In addition to the perceived noise nuisance, the people were also asked about the harassment by pollution and crime in the residential environment, as well as to defects in their apartment. A quarter of the population (25 percent) in Germany increased pollution or other environmental damage caused by industry, road or air traffic in the residential environment. Here Germany was in the EU also in the front of the field: Only in Malta (30 percent) took more people, such a burden is not true. At least this assessment is shared with 6 percent of the people in Croatia, and Sweden. The EU average was 15 percent.
13 percent of the population in Germany, replied in the affirmative to the question of whether there was crime, violence or vandalism in one’s own living environment. Thus, the proportion is just above the EU average of 12 percent. With around 22 per cent of the share in Bulgaria was the highest, with almost 3 percent in Croatia at the lowest.
On the question of perceived defects in the apartment or in the house, around every eighth Person (13 percent) in Germany, moisture or mold problems. The corresponded approximately to the EU average of 14 per cent.
NK