Goats are situational noise
Unlike geese, goats do not announce themselves all day. A contented goat browses, ruminates, and dozes in near silence, and many keepers describe their herds as quieter than a neighbour's dog. The noise goats do make comes in bursts with specific causes — season, separation, hunger, and boredom — which means the answer for your neighbours depends heavily on which goats you keep and how you keep them. Manage the causes, and a goat herd is a modest presence on any street.
Which goats are the loud ones
Intact bucks top the list: through the breeding season a buck bellows, blats, and carries on at volume, aiming the whole performance at does and rival males. Does in heat call repeatedly for a day or two at a time, and a milking doe separated from her kids will bleat for hours. Bottle-raised youngsters and goats kept alone are persistent callers, because goats are herd animals wired to stay in voice contact with their companions. Wethers — castrated males — and settled adult does kept in company sit at the quiet end of the scale, and they are the usual choice for smallholdings near houses.
What actually reaches the fence line
A bleat is shorter and less piercing than a goose's honk, and it stops when the cause stops: the herd reunites, the feeder arrives, the heat passes. Neighbours are most likely to hear early-morning calling if goats expect breakfast at first light, and evening noise if a goat is shut away from its companions overnight. A herd housed in a barn at night, well away from the boundary, rarely troubles anyone; a lone goat in a pen against the fence can undo a street's sleep within a week.
Keeping goats neighbour-quiet
Keep at least two goats, always — company is the single biggest noise reducer a herd animal has. Feed at consistent times so nobody shouts the herd awake at dawn, and give browsers enough forage, shelter, and things to climb that boredom never becomes the day's entertainment. If you do not plan to breed, wethers and does kept away from bucks avoid the seasonal chorus entirely. Site night housing away from shared fences, talk to neighbours before the hooves arrive, and check local rules on livestock, since zoning settles some goat questions before noise ever does.
The bottom line for your street
Chosen and housed with their herd nature in mind, goats are among the easier livestock to keep beside neighbours — quiet for most of every day, with their noisy moments predictable and manageable. When goats move to you from a previous keeper, KinsLe Transferrable Profiles hands over each profile with its history and routines intact, so you know which doe calls in heat and which wether never makes a sound before you commit to the herd.