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– Aircraft noise, the most health-threatening source of noise pollution among all modes of transport, is a stressor with identifiable effects on occupants' well-being and social behavior at airports and environs.

– This aircraft noise-induced psychosocial health assessment utilized C-weighting to capture peak noise levels with self-reported primary data from a sample size (n = 402) of individuals ages at least 18 years old.

– The significant contributive powers of distances to the effective aircraft's noise strength experienced were confirmed (p = 0.024). The study reveals that the higher the participants' educational attainment, the higher the likelihood (p = 1 × 10^-4) they are annoyed by aircraft noise. Duration of occupying the airport's environs contributes significantly (p = 0.007). For psychosocial ill-health, a linear periodic-exposure-risk relationship for migraines was found with low risk-estimates …