Noise Levels in Five Mile Creek, Dallas, TX | Find Quiet Neighborhoods With Our Sound Map
53 dBA
Average noise across Five Mile Creek
Quiet office to normal conversation
1,120
Residents above the EPA 55 dBA threshold
21% of Five Mile Creek residents
77 dBA
Loudest residential point
City bus interior
This map shows modeled outdoor noise across Five Mile Creek 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 1,120 Five Mile Creek residents, or 21.3%, live above that level. By land area, 53.4% of Five Mile Creek is above 55 dBA.
Average noise levels for Five Mile Creek residents, grouped by direction from the center of Five Mile Creek. Southern Five Mile Creek carries the highest population-weighted average; Central Five Mile Creek carries the lowest. Just 19% of residents in Central Five Mile Creek live in blocks above the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, a third of the share in Southern Five Mile Creek.
Central Five Mile Creek
52.1 dBA · Moderate
Quiet office to normal conversation
19% of people above 55 dBA
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Northern Five Mile Creek
53.0 dBA · Moderate-loud
Quiet office to normal conversation
18% of people above 55 dBA
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Southern Five Mile Creek
67.3 dBA · Loud
Highway traffic 50 ft away
94% of people above 55 dBA
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Western Five Mile Creek
58.1 dBA · Loud
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
59% of people above 55 dBA
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Southern Five Mile Creek sounds about 187% louder than Central Five Mile Creek to the human ear, a 15.2 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 US Hwy 67 do you need to be?
US Hwy 67 produces an estimated 76 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
76 dBA
City bus interior
165 ft
61 dBA
Busy restaurant
330 ft
53 dBA
Quiet office to normal conversation
660 ft
45 dBA
Quiet suburban street at night
¼ mile
36 dBA
Soft rainfall
½ mile
35 dBA
Soft rainfall
Calculated from the model's calibrated attenuation formula. About 26% of Five Mile Creek sits under tree canopy (heavier than most neighborhoods) and roughly 50% 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
Dallas Love Field (DAL) sits north of Five Mile Creek. 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 65 dBA on the map's Overall layer. Blocks on the opposite side of Five Mile Creek, particularly to the south, show no measurable aviation contribution. Use the Aviation toggle on the map above to isolate the airport's footprint.
How Noise Is Distributed Across Five Mile Creek
The bar chart below shows the share of Five Mile Creek residents in each noise band. About 61% of residents live below the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, and roughly 4% live in blocks above 60 dBA. Long-term exposure in that range is linked to elevated stress hormones and cardiovascular risk.
How Five Mile Creek Compares
Five Mile Creek sits at the louder end of the spectrum. Below: how Five Mile Creek's average outdoor noise and share of residents above the EPA threshold compare with North Westchester Meadows, Far North Dallas-Richardson, Near East, and Song.
Average noise level (dBA)
Five Mile Creek's 52.7 dBA pop-weighted average is at the louder end of the spectrum. Texas as a whole averages 50.8 dBA and the U.S. averages 52.0 dBA. Both are lower than Five Mile Creek because most of either area is rural land away from major roads.
Share of residents above 55 dBA
About 21.3% of Five Mile Creek 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, 53.4% of Five Mile Creek'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 Five Mile Creek
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 US Hwy 67 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 26% of Five Mile Creek is under tree cover (heavier 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. Dallas Love Field's approach paths concentrate aviation noise to the north. Neighborhoods to the south 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.
