NoiseLevelCheck

Uhrichsville, OH Noise Levels

Is Uhrichsville, OH noisy?

Uhrichsville, OH'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. 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 Uhrichsville, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.

Uhrichsville's noise, by source

75 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

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. Upgraded windows, door seals and STC-rated glazing meaningfully cut broadband, near-continuous road noise.

Where Uhrichsville ranks

Among the 3,622 US places in this dataset with any measurable transportation noise, Uhrichsville ranks 45, loudest first. By population, it ranks 4,816 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 5,122 people.

Your street may differ from Uhrichsville's reading

This page describes Uhrichsville as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.

Look up Uhrichsville directly on BTS's noise map

Behind Uhrichsville's reading

The methodology guide shows exactly how Uhrichsville'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.