Is a mid terraced house noisier than a flat?

[Invisiblewoman1]

I am looking to move from a one bed flat. For 3 reasons - parking, more space and noise.
My neighbours are not loud people so I am very lucky but I am on ground floor and I hear every footstep, every sneeze, every phone call from upstairs. When they wake up for a wee overnight... so do I. When they get up for work at 5am I’m awake too.
I don’t get disturbed by the people next door nearly as much, I hear them but they don’t wake me up. All I can afford is a mid terraced house but will it be just as noisy as my flat?

Depends 100% on neighbours. I'm mid terrace, my left neighbour is perfect I never hear him because he's single like me and lives like a mouse. My right neighbours are good people but fiesty and there's 3 of them so I hear them shout, hear the dog etc. I'd love to go detached one day but even then there's no guarantee... kids screaming in gardens etc.

I've lived in 4 mid-terraced houses (all built pre-1920) over the last 30 years and have only had problem with noise with one set of neighbours - but he was a complete tosser who put surround sound speakers in the bedroom so he could watch TV late at night.

I would definitely choose a terrace over a flat - I would hate hearing neighbours walking about, especially at night.

We live in an old row of terrace houses and there's 0 sound proofing, we can hear our neighbor coughing all day long, but in the terraced house I've lived in before, slightly newer, you couldn't hear anything. Depends on the actual house and neighbors

The unhelpful response is what's already been said - depends on the property and the neighbours. But in my experience of both, I'd go for a terrace house over a flat - I lived in a ground floor flat for a few years and the noise from above (and from the flat above them) was terrible. To me there is something thing more oppressive about noise from above and it is harder to escape than noise from the sides where you can move rooms.

I can still remember the squeaky bum noise my upstairs neighbour used to make getting out of the bath - haven't experienced anything like that from either side

I totally agree with Wobblylondoner about how somehow the noise from the floor above being worse and oppressive. I’ve lived in a ground floor flat and then in a mid terrace (in my case 1970s build for both). Although I could hear my neighbors next door, it’s the noise from the flat above that really used to get to me. They weren’t particularly loud but any noise used to seem to reverberate right through me, if that’s makes sense? It really got to me. I’m much happier now in the mid terrace.

My first house was an Edwardian mid-terrace and the sound didn't really travel much between the properties, except for in the bathroom, for some reason. It was almost as though the sound travelled along the pipes or something.

Compared to the purpose built flat I'd lived in before, where the noise travelled so well that I could tell when the upstairs neighbours were eating their dinner by the sound of clattering cutlery, it was bliss.

The thing that really got me about the flat was the way the sound travelled between the bathrooms. Every flat above and below had its water pipes boxed in in the same corner of the bathroom. Whenever anyone used the bog or ran water, it was really loud.

Thank you all. @Lincolnbincoln I know exactly what you mean. I can fall asleep with next door watching tv or chatting but every little turn Upstairs’s make in bed and every middle of the night wee wakes me up so abruptly it really disturbs my sleep . When they hoover it’s horrific!

Depends on the houses.

We live mid terrace, built 1908. Can’t hear neighbours indoors unless they are really really shouting. Came outside the other night and was shocked one neighbour was playing really loud music as I couldn’t hear it inside. Our living rooms and bedrooms are adjacent and rarely hear them. Other side have hallways adjacent but adjacent bathrooms - hear their loo flush very occasionally

When I lived in flats I heard all neighbours all the time.

We live in a relatively modern terrace. Sound insulation surprisingly good. Next door are very musical and have a baby grand piano, millions of guitars and we never hear them. But do hear them walking up the stairs that are uncarpeted.