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The line graph illustrates how many complaints were made by citizens to authorities from 1980 until 1996 in Newtown.

It also divides complaints into four types: complaints about the noise from road works, factories, traffic and domestic noise.

In 1980 the highest number of complaints was made about road works.

However, complaints about this noise gradually fell and only one hundred people complained about it in 1996.

The number of complaints about noise from factories rose constantly (from four hundred in 1980) and reached a peak of seven hundred in 1996.

The quantity of people complaining about traffic and domestic noise remained constant between 1980 and 1984 (at 300 and 500 persons respectively).

In 1984 the number of these complaints dropped 100 and remained at those rates until 1988.

Then, the quantity of complaints rose significantly: complaints about traffic noise doubled while the number of people disturbing by domestic noise reached the highest peak of 1200 complaints in 1996.

To sum up, the number of complaints about road works fell in 6 times while the number of them about other 3 types of noise doubled by 1996.