Harrisburg, PA Noise Levels
How loud is Harrisburg, PA?
At 47.5 dB(A), Harrisburg, PA 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's the reading at Harrisburg's Census-defined center point, not any one street, BTS's map is a live raster, not a per-address service.
Where Harrisburg'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 Harrisburg compares nationally
Harrisburg ranks 1,931 of 3,622 measured places nationally, 1 being the loudest this dataset covers. Population is about 50,649, 809th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Checking one address in Harrisburg
Nothing here substitutes for checking one address in Harrisburg directly, and BTS's own map lets anyone do that at no cost.
Harrisburg'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.