Wood Dale, IL Noise Levels
Is Wood Dale, IL noisy?
Wood Dale, IL'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. Aircraft drives that number here, not the other two sources. Wood Dale's reading comes from a single sampled point, not a block-by-block sweep, so a specific address here could genuinely differ.
Wood Dale'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
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. Aircraft noise is intermittent and lower-frequency, which is why FAA’s Part 150 program funds whole-envelope sound insulation for homes inside an airport’s own mapped noise contour rather than relying on window replacement alone.
Where Wood Dale ranks
Among the 3,622 US places in this dataset with any measurable transportation noise, Wood Dale ranks 142, loudest first. About 13,983 people live there, making it the 2,515th largest place in this dataset.
Your street may differ from Wood Dale's reading
This page describes Wood Dale as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Wood Dale's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Wood Dale's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Since aircraft is what's driving this reading, the guide to what actually cuts each kind of noise covers the fix that fits.