Noise Levels in Culebra Park, San Antonio, TX | Find Quiet Neighborhoods With Our Sound Map
51 dBA
Average noise across Culebra Park
Quiet office to normal conversation
860
Residents above the EPA 55 dBA threshold
22% of Culebra Park residents
60 dBA
Loudest residential point
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
This map shows modeled outdoor noise across Culebra Park 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 860 Culebra Park residents, or 21.5%, live above that level. By land area, 25.3% of Culebra Park is above 55 dBA.
Average noise levels for Culebra Park residents, grouped by direction from the center of Culebra Park. Eastern Culebra Park carries the highest population-weighted average; Northern Culebra Park carries the lowest. Just 0% of residents in Northern Culebra Park live in blocks above the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, a fifth of the share in Eastern Culebra Park.
Central Culebra Park
49.7 dBA · Mostly quiet
Quiet office
8% of people above 55 dBA
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Eastern Culebra Park
53.7 dBA · Moderate-loud
Quiet office to normal conversation
47% of people above 55 dBA
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Northern Culebra Park
49.4 dBA · Mostly quiet
Quiet office
0% of people above 55 dBA
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Southern Culebra Park
50.8 dBA · Moderate
Quiet office
0% of people above 55 dBA
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Western Culebra Park
53.7 dBA · Moderate-loud
Quiet office to normal conversation
40% of people above 55 dBA
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Eastern Culebra Park sounds about 35% louder than Northern Culebra Park to the human ear, a 4.3 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 do you need to be?
produces an estimated 60 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
60 dBA
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
165 ft
46 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 10% of Culebra Park sits under tree canopy (lighter than most neighborhoods) and roughly 37% 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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Airport Noise
San Antonio International (SAT) sits northeast of Culebra Park. The U.S. Department of Transportation models aviation noise around this airport from federal traffic data, 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 45 dBA on the map's Overall layer. Blocks on the opposite side of Culebra Park, particularly to the southwest, show no measurable aviation contribution. Use the Aviation toggle on the map above to isolate the airport's footprint.
How Noise Is Distributed Across Culebra Park
The bar chart below shows the share of Culebra Park residents in each noise band. About 72% of residents live below the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, and roughly 0% live in blocks above 60 dBA. Long-term exposure in that range is linked to elevated stress hormones and cardiovascular risk.
How Culebra Park Compares
Culebra Park sits at the quieter end of the spectrum. Below: how Culebra Park's average outdoor noise and share of residents above the EPA threshold compare with Ingram Hills, United Westwood, Oak Hills, and Meadow Village.
Average noise level (dBA)
Culebra Park's 51.3 dBA pop-weighted average is at the quieter end of the spectrum. Texas as a whole averages 50.8 dBA and the U.S. averages 52.0 dBA. Both are lower than Culebra Park because most of either area is rural land away from major roads.
Share of residents above 55 dBA
About 21.5% of Culebra Park 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, 25.3% of Culebra Park's footprint sits above 55 dBA, against a Texas average of 22.8% and a national average of 28.1%.
What This Means if You're Moving to Culebra Park
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 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 10% of Culebra Park 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. San Antonio International's approach paths concentrate aviation noise to the northeast. Neighborhoods to the southwest 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.
