Albany, GA Noise Levels
Is Albany, GA noisy?
Albany, GA's 70-79.9 dB(A) band spans one of HUD's zone boundaries, so the honest answer is a range: somewhere between "Normally Unacceptable" (65-75 dB(A)) and "Unacceptable" (above 75 dB(A)), not one clean verdict. Road traffic drives that number here, not the other two sources. Treat this as Albany's one representative point, not a promise about every block in it, BTS's map wasn't built to resolve individual streets.
Albany's noise, by source
Each of the three transportation modes gets its own model from BTS; the combined figure above is what they add up to.
What this means for a house here
That also clears FHWA's own 66 dB(A) impact threshold for residential land use (23 CFR 772, Table 1), the level highway agencies use to decide whether a new road needs a sound wall. Upgraded windows, door seals and STC-rated glazing meaningfully cut broadband, near-continuous road noise.
Where Albany ranks
Among the 3,622 US places in this dataset with any measurable transportation noise, Albany ranks 20, loudest first. By population, it ranks 589 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 66,705 people.
Your street may differ from Albany's reading
This page describes Albany as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Albany's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Albany's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Since road traffic is what's driving this reading, the guide to what actually cuts each kind of noise covers the fix that fits.