Osceola Mills, PA Noise Levels
Is Osceola Mills, PA noisy?
Osceola Mills, PA reads 52.5 dB(A) on BTS's 24-hour average, 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. Road 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 Osceola Mills, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Osceola Mills'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
Upgraded windows, door seals and STC-rated glazing meaningfully cut broadband, near-continuous road noise.
Where Osceola Mills ranks
Among the 3,622 US places in this dataset with any measurable transportation noise, Osceola Mills ranks 1,614, loudest first. By population, it ranks 10,194 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 1,013 people.
Your street may differ from Osceola Mills's reading
This page describes Osceola Mills as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Osceola Mills's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Osceola Mills's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Since road traffic is what's driving this reading, the guide to what actually cuts each kind of noise covers the fix that fits.