Balch Springs, TX Noise Levels
Is Balch Springs, TX noisy?
Balch Springs, TX's 60-69.9 dB(A) band spans one of HUD's zone boundaries, so the honest answer is a range: somewhere between "Acceptable" (65 dB(A) or below) and "Normally Unacceptable" (65-75 dB(A)), not one clean verdict. Road traffic drives that number here, not the other two sources. Treat this as Balch Springs's one representative point, not a promise about every block in it, BTS's map wasn't built to resolve individual streets.
Balch Springs'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
Depending on where in that band the true value sits, it may also clear FHWA's 66 dB(A) residential impact threshold (23 CFR 772, Table 1), the trigger highway agencies use for sound-wall decisions. Upgraded windows, door seals and STC-rated glazing meaningfully cut broadband, near-continuous road noise.
Where Balch Springs ranks
Among the 3,622 US places in this dataset with any measurable transportation noise, Balch Springs ranks 118, loudest first. Population is about 27,307, 1,465th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Balch Springs's reading
This page describes Balch Springs as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Balch Springs's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Balch Springs'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.