Noise Levels in Kleinfeltersville, PA | Find Quiet Neighborhoods With Our Sound Map

40 dBA

Average noise across Kleinfeltersville

Soft rainfall

Residents above the EPA 55 dBA threshold

1% of Kleinfeltersville residents

62 dBA

Loudest residential point

Busy restaurant

This map shows modeled outdoor noise across Kleinfeltersville 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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Kleinfeltersville, PA Map of Noise Levels in Kleinfeltersville

35 45 55 70 90

Quietest (dBA) Loudest

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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 0 Kleinfeltersville residents, or 0.7%, live above that level. By land area, 1.6% of Kleinfeltersville is above 55 dBA.

98.4% below 55 dBA

1.6% above 55 dBA

See how noise in Kleinfeltersville compares to similar-sized cities.

Western Kleinfeltersville sounds about 0% louder than Southern Kleinfeltersville to the human ear, a 0.0 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 Noise Is Distributed Across Kleinfeltersville

The bar chart below shows the share of Kleinfeltersville residents in each noise band. About 100% 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 Kleinfeltersville Compares

Kleinfeltersville sits the lowest among the peer group. Below: how Kleinfeltersville's average outdoor noise and share of residents above the EPA threshold compare with Mount Hope, Pennwyn, Ridgewood, and Zerbe.

Average noise level (dBA)

Kleinfeltersville's 39.9 dBA pop-weighted average is the lowest among the peer group. Pennsylvania as a whole averages 52.9 dBA and the U.S. averages 52.0 dBA. Both are lower than Kleinfeltersville because most of either area is rural land away from major roads.

Share of residents above 55 dBA

About 0.7% of Kleinfeltersville 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, 1.6% of Kleinfeltersville's footprint sits above 55 dBA, against a Pennsylvania average of 33.5% and a national average of 28.1%.

What This Means if You're Moving to Kleinfeltersville

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 Cxzd Sunnyside Rd 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 20% of Kleinfeltersville is under tree cover (lighter than most cities), and the dominant land cover is pasture / hay. 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.

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.

Federal datasets used:

FHWA Highway Performance Monitoring System: road geometry, traffic counts, lane configuration
U.S. DoT Bureau of Transportation Statistics National Transportation Noise Map: aviation and rail noise, road calibration ground truth
USGS / MRLC National Land Cover Database: land cover and impervious surface coverage
USDA Forest Service Tree Canopy Cover: vegetation density for sound propagation
U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line: block-level geography and population
U.S. EPA Levels Document: 55 dBA outdoor reference level

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.