Great Neck, NY Noise Levels
How loud is Great Neck, NY?
At 47.5 dB(A), Great Neck, NY falls inside HUD's "Acceptable" noise zone, 65 dB(A) day-night average or below under 24 CFR 51.104, the federal government's own line for building housing with no extra sound attenuation required. That figure is sampled at one coordinate, the Census Bureau's own internal point for Great Neck, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Great Neck's noise comes from
BTS models these three sources separately before combining them, so a place can be quiet on two and loud on the third.
How Great Neck compares nationally
Great Neck ranks 2,296 of 3,622 measured places nationally, 1 being the loudest this dataset covers. By population, it ranks 2,977 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 11,075 people.
Checking one address in Great Neck
Nothing here substitutes for checking one address in Great Neck directly, and BTS's own map lets anyone do that at no cost.
Great Neck's number isn't a one-off calculation, it comes from the same method covered in the methodology guide. See the why New York City shows up quiet here too for why a real place can show no reading at all.