Live Oak, FL Noise Levels
How loud is Live Oak, FL?
At 47.5 dB(A), Live Oak, FL 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. Live Oak's reading comes from a single sampled point, not a block-by-block sweep, so a specific address here could genuinely differ.
Where Live Oak'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 Live Oak compares nationally
Live Oak ranks 2,464 of 3,622 measured places nationally, 1 being the loudest this dataset covers. By population, it ranks 3,983 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 7,200 people.
Checking one address in Live Oak
Nothing here substitutes for checking one address in Live Oak directly, and BTS's own map lets anyone do that at no cost.
Live Oak'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.