Noise Levels in 25th Street, Ogden, UT | Find Quiet Neighborhoods With Our Sound Map
57 dBA
Average noise across 25th Street
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
3,209
Residents above the EPA 55 dBA threshold
50% of 25th Street residents
81 dBA
Loudest residential point
City bus interior
This map shows modeled outdoor noise across 25th Street at 100-meter resolution, combining road, aviation, and rail sources. Green areas measure below 45 dBA. Orange and red exceed the EPA's 55 dBA outdoor threshold linked to long-term health effects. Use the layer toggles to view each source on its own or all together.
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What the numbers sound like
30 dBAWhisper
40 dBASoft rainfall
45 dBAQuiet suburban street at night
50 dBAQuiet office
55 dBAEPA outdoor threshold: light traffic 100 ft away
60 dBANormal conversation an arm's length away
65 dBABusy restaurant
70 dBAHighway traffic 50 ft away
80 dBACity bus interior
Population Above the EPA Outdoor Threshold
The EPA's 55 dBA outdoor reference level is a common benchmark for residential noise exposure, especially for activity interference, annoyance, and long-term community noise concerns. About 3,209 25th Street residents, or 49.9%, live above that level. By land area, 60.9% of 25th Street is above 55 dBA.
Average noise levels for 25th Street residents, grouped by direction from the center of 25th Street. Western 25th Street carries the highest population-weighted average; Central 25th Street carries the lowest. Just 35% of residents in Central 25th Street live in blocks above the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, about half the share in Western 25th Street.
Central 25th Street
53.4 dBA · Moderate-loud
Quiet office to normal conversation
35% of people above 55 dBA
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Eastern 25th Street
55.7 dBA · Moderate-loud
Quiet office to normal conversation
55% of people above 55 dBA
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Northern 25th Street
55.2 dBA · Moderate-loud
Quiet office to normal conversation
34% of people above 55 dBA
QuietLoud
Southern 25th Street
57.9 dBA · Moderate-loud
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
47% of people above 55 dBA
QuietLoud
Western 25th Street
60.4 dBA · Loud
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
70% of people above 55 dBA
QuietLoud
Western 25th Street sounds about 62% louder than Central 25th Street to the human ear, a 7.0 dBA gap. Every 10 dBA roughly doubles perceived loudness. Within any of these directions, two homes a quarter mile apart can still differ by 10 or more dBA depending on how close they sit to a major highway.
How far back from Lincoln Ave / 200 E do you need to be?
Lincoln Ave / 200 E produces an estimated 59 dBA at its loudest centerline points. Noise drops logarithmically with distance, with the exact rate depending on what's between you and the road. Tree cover, walls, terrain, and pavement type all matter. At roughly a quarter mile back, traffic fades into the noise level of a soft rainfall.
At source
59 dBA
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
165 ft
45 dBA
Quiet suburban street at night
330 ft
37 dBA
Soft rainfall
660 ft
35 dBA
Soft rainfall
¼ mile
35 dBA
Soft rainfall
½ mile
35 dBA
Soft rainfall
Calculated from the model's calibrated attenuation formula. About 7% of 25th Street sits under tree canopy (lighter than most neighborhoods) and roughly 56% is impervious surface like pavement and rooftops. Both are folded into the per-place decay rate above. Heavier canopy pulls noise down faster with distance; impervious surfaces slow the drop.
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Rail Noise
Active freight rail runs through parts of 25th Street. For most blocks the rail-only contribution is small. Combined road-plus-rail noise rarely exceeds road noise on its own. The exceptions are the handful of blocks within roughly a quarter mile of the right-of-way during pass-through hours.
Use the Rail toggle on the map above to isolate rail's contribution from road and aviation.
Airport Noise
Salt Lake City International (SLC) sits south of 25th Street. The U.S. Department of Transportation measures aviation noise around this airport directly, and the model uses those federal measurements rather than synthetic predictions.
Blocks under the approach and departure paths carry combined road-plus-aviation noise, with some exceeding 50 dBA on the map's Overall layer. Blocks on the opposite side of 25th Street, particularly to the north, show no measurable aviation contribution. Use the Aviation toggle on the map above to isolate the airport's footprint.
How Noise Is Distributed Across 25th Street
The bar chart below shows the share of 25th Street residents in each noise band. About 40% of residents live below the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, and roughly 24% live in blocks above 60 dBA. Long-term exposure in that range is linked to elevated stress hormones and cardiovascular risk.
How 25th Street Compares
25th Street sits at the quieter end of the spectrum. Below: how 25th Street's average outdoor noise and share of residents above the EPA threshold compare with Fairpark, Westpointe, People's Freeway, and Liberty Wells.
Average noise level (dBA)
25th Street's 56.7 dBA pop-weighted average is at the quieter end of the spectrum. Utah as a whole averages 53.1 dBA and the U.S. averages 52.0 dBA. Both are lower than 25th Street because most of either area is rural land away from major roads.
Share of residents above 55 dBA
About 49.9% of 25th Street residents live in blocks where outdoor levels exceed the EPA's 55 dBA threshold. That's in the middle of its peer group. Measured by land area instead, 60.9% of 25th Street's footprint sits above 55 dBA, against a Utah average of 25.8% and a national average of 28.1%.
What This Means if You're Moving to 25th Street
Distance from highways matters more than the neighborhood name. Two homes in the same zip code can differ by 20 dBA if one sits 100 meters from Lincoln Ave / 200 E and the other 500 meters away. The model captures this at 100-meter resolution, so noise exposure changes block by block.
Tree canopy can help reduce modeled noise exposure. Roughly 7% of 25th Street is under tree cover (lighter than most neighborhoods), and the dominant land cover is low-intensity developed land. Both are measured from federal USDA Forest Service and USGS satellite imagery at 30-meter resolution. Streets with 60% or higher canopy show 3 to 5 dBA lower noise than comparable streets with bare ground or pavement, which is why the per-place decay rate above already accounts for it.
Airport noise is directional. Salt Lake City International's approach paths concentrate aviation noise to the south. Neighborhoods to the north of downtown show no measurable contribution from the airport.
Sources & Methodology
The BestNeighborhood noise model is calibrated against nearly one million federal ground-truth measurements across four states. Road noise is computed from segment-level federal traffic data and propagated outward using physics-based acoustic decay, with attenuation rates that depend on the surrounding land cover.
All inputs are published federal datasets. Block-level noise is computed by combining road, rail, and aviation sound sources in the energy domain, the same physics used in professional environmental noise assessments. Read the full methodology.
