Dixmoor, IL Noise Levels
Is Dixmoor, IL noisy?
Dixmoor, IL'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 Dixmoor's one representative point, not a promise about every block in it, BTS's map wasn't built to resolve individual streets.
Dixmoor'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 Dixmoor ranks
Among the 3,622 US places in this dataset with any measurable transportation noise, Dixmoor ranks 49, loudest first. By population, it ranks 6,374 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 2,944 people.
Your street may differ from Dixmoor's reading
This page describes Dixmoor as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Dixmoor's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Dixmoor'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.