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Santa Rosa, TX Noise Levels

Santa Rosa, TX: what the federal noise map shows

Santa Rosa, TX'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. Road traffic drives that number here, not the other two sources. Treat this as Santa Rosa's one representative point, not a promise about every block in it, BTS's map wasn't built to resolve individual streets.

Santa Rosa's noise, by source

65 dBRoad
n/aRail
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. Upgraded windows, door seals and STC-rated glazing meaningfully cut broadband, near-continuous road noise.

Where Santa Rosa ranks

Among the 3,622 US places in this dataset with any measurable transportation noise, Santa Rosa ranks 220, loudest first. By population, it ranks 7,074 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 2,366 people.

Your street may differ from Santa Rosa's reading

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

See BTS's official National Transportation Noise Map

More on how this number was built

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