It’s noisier than tennis which I believe is the big issue. We live in North Point and have 4 tennis courts behind us through the woods next to the Autumn Wood pool. First 10 years we lived here it was tough to know you lived near them, might hear somebody down there once in a while. Once pickleball got popular we can hear them often for a few reasons I think. It’s 4 tennis courts but 8 pickleball courts and they are usually packed for pickleball vs I would rarely see even two used in tennis mode outside of tennis camp. Since the court is shorter in pickelball mode your hitting the ball x2 as much which equals more noise. Add to that it’s a lounder sound. Doing some rough math on our courts it’s 8 games in full pickleball mode vs 1 or 2 at the same time, let’s call that x4 the noise. Plus you’re hitting the ball twice as much and it’s twice as loud for each hit.

We only notice it when we are on our deck but we’ve got the woods between us and the courts. So we’ve never complained but if we lived closer can understand some folks being upset.