Hickory Creek, TX Noise Levels
How loud is Hickory Creek, TX?
At 47.5 dB(A), Hickory Creek, TX 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 Hickory Creek, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Hickory Creek'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 Hickory Creek compares nationally
Hickory Creek ranks 2,484 of 3,622 measured places nationally, 1 being the loudest this dataset covers. About 6,901 people live there, making it the 4,078th largest place in this dataset.
Checking one address in Hickory Creek
Nothing here substitutes for checking one address in Hickory Creek directly, and BTS's own map lets anyone do that at no cost.
Hickory Creek'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.