NoiseLevelCheck

Magee, MS Noise Levels

Magee, MS: what the federal noise map shows

Magee, MS's 60-69.9 dB(A) band spans one of HUD's zone boundaries, so the honest answer is a range: somewhere between "Acceptable" (65 dB(A) or below) and "Normally Unacceptable" (65-75 dB(A)), not one clean verdict. Rail traffic drives that number here, not the other two sources. That figure is sampled at one coordinate, the Census Bureau's own internal point for Magee, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.

Magee's noise, by source

n/aRoad
65 dBRail
n/aAviation

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

Depending on where in that band the true value sits, it may also clear FHWA's 66 dB(A) residential impact threshold (23 CFR 772, Table 1), the trigger highway agencies use for sound-wall decisions. The same window and door upgrades that work on road noise also cut broadband rail noise, though very low-frequency freight rumble travels through walls, not just glass.

Where Magee ranks

Among the 3,622 US places in this dataset with any measurable transportation noise, Magee ranks 193, loudest first. About 3,924 people live there, making it the 5,540th largest place in this dataset.

Your street may differ from Magee's reading

For a single house or lot in Magee rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.

Look up Magee directly on BTS's noise map

More on how this number was built

For exactly which federal dataset feeds Magee's figure, see the methodology guide. Since rail traffic is what's driving this reading, the guide to what actually cuts each kind of noise covers the fix that fits.