Noise Levels in Kendrick Lake, Lakewood, CO | Find Quiet Neighborhoods With Our Sound Map
52 dBA
Average noise across Kendrick Lake
Quiet office to normal conversation
1,227
Residents above the EPA 55 dBA threshold
25% of Kendrick Lake residents
70 dBA
Loudest residential point
Highway traffic 50 ft away
This map shows modeled outdoor noise across Kendrick Lake 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 1,227 Kendrick Lake residents, or 25.2%, live above that level. By land area, 38.0% of Kendrick Lake is above 55 dBA.
Average noise levels for Kendrick Lake residents, grouped by direction from the center of Kendrick Lake. Northern Kendrick Lake carries the highest population-weighted average; Southern Kendrick Lake carries the lowest. Just 13% of residents in Southern Kendrick Lake live in blocks above the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, a third of the share in Northern Kendrick Lake.
Central Kendrick Lake
52.5 dBA · Moderate
Quiet office to normal conversation
29% of people above 55 dBA
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Eastern Kendrick Lake
51.0 dBA · Moderate
Quiet office
26% of people above 55 dBA
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Northern Kendrick Lake
54.8 dBA · Moderate-loud
Quiet office to normal conversation
50% of people above 55 dBA
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Southern Kendrick Lake
50.2 dBA · Moderate
Quiet office
13% of people above 55 dBA
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Western Kendrick Lake
51.5 dBA · Moderate
Quiet office to normal conversation
22% of people above 55 dBA
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Northern Kendrick Lake sounds about 38% louder than Southern Kendrick Lake to the human ear, a 4.6 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 285 do you need to be?
US Hwy 285 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 13% of Kendrick Lake sits under tree canopy (about average for neighborhoods) and roughly 45% 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
Denver International (DEN) sits northeast of Kendrick Lake. 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 75 dBA on the map's Overall layer. Blocks on the opposite side of Kendrick Lake, 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 Kendrick Lake
The bar chart below shows the share of Kendrick Lake residents in each noise band. About 86% 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 Kendrick Lake Compares
Kendrick Lake sits at the quieter end of the spectrum. Below: how Kendrick Lake's average outdoor noise and share of residents above the EPA threshold compare with Foothills, North Alameda, Lasley, and Arvada Plaza Area.
Average noise level (dBA)
Kendrick Lake's 51.5 dBA pop-weighted average is at the quieter end of the spectrum. Colorado as a whole averages 51.9 dBA and the U.S. averages 52.0 dBA. Both are lower than Kendrick Lake because most of either area is rural land away from major roads.
Share of residents above 55 dBA
About 25.2% of Kendrick Lake 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, 38.0% of Kendrick Lake's footprint sits above 55 dBA, against a Colorado average of 25.4% and a national average of 28.1%.
What This Means if You're Moving to Kendrick Lake
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 285 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 13% of Kendrick Lake is under tree cover (about average for 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. Denver 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.
