New Philadelphia, PA Noise Levels
New Philadelphia, PA: what the federal noise map shows
New Philadelphia, PA's 70-79.9 dB(A) band spans one of HUD's zone boundaries, so the honest answer is a range: somewhere between "Normally Unacceptable" (65-75 dB(A)) and "Unacceptable" (above 75 dB(A)), not one clean verdict. Rail traffic drives that number here, not the other two sources. This describes New Philadelphia as a whole, not a specific block, the underlying BTS map resolves to about 38 meters per pixel, sampled at the town's own center point.
New Philadelphia's noise, by source
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
That also clears FHWA's own 66 dB(A) impact threshold for residential land use (23 CFR 772, Table 1), the level highway agencies use to decide whether a new road needs a sound wall. 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 New Philadelphia ranks
Among the 3,622 US places in this dataset with any measurable transportation noise, New Philadelphia ranks 61, loudest first. About 1,067 people live there, making it the 10,008th largest place in this dataset.
Your street may differ from New Philadelphia's reading
For a single house or lot in New Philadelphia rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.
More on how this number was built
For exactly which federal dataset feeds New Philadelphia'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.