Wilmerding, PA Noise Levels
Is Wilmerding, PA noisy?
Wilmerding, 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. That figure is sampled at one coordinate, the Census Bureau's own internal point for Wilmerding, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Wilmerding'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 Wilmerding ranks
Among the 3,622 US places in this dataset with any measurable transportation noise, Wilmerding ranks 55, loudest first. Population is about 1,719, 8,236th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Wilmerding's reading
This page describes Wilmerding as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Wilmerding's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Wilmerding's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Since rail traffic is what's driving this reading, the guide to what actually cuts each kind of noise covers the fix that fits.