Noise Levels in Landen, OH | Find Quiet Neighborhoods With Our Sound Map
57 dBA
Average noise across Landen
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
763
Residents above the EPA 55 dBA threshold
51% of Landen residents
80 dBA
Loudest residential point
City bus interior
This map shows modeled outdoor noise across Landen 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 763 Landen residents, or 50.8%, live above that level. By land area, 67.3% of Landen is above 55 dBA.
Average noise levels for Landen residents, grouped by direction from the center of Landen. Western Landen carries the highest population-weighted average; Eastern Landen carries the lowest. Just 10% of residents in Eastern Landen live in blocks above the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, a fifth of the share in Western Landen.
Eastern Landen
49.3 dBA · Mostly quiet
Quiet office
10% of people above 55 dBA
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Northern Landen
57.4 dBA · Moderate-loud
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
60% of people above 55 dBA
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Western Landen
67.1 dBA · Loud
Highway traffic 50 ft away
92% of people above 55 dBA
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Western Landen sounds about 243% louder than Eastern Landen to the human ear, a 17.8 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 80 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 quiet suburban street at night.
At source
80 dBA
City bus interior
165 ft
67 dBA
Highway traffic 50 ft away
330 ft
59 dBA
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
660 ft
51 dBA
Quiet office to normal conversation
¼ mile
43 dBA
Quiet suburban street at night
½ mile
35 dBA
Soft rainfall
Calculated from the model's calibrated attenuation formula. About 23% of Landen sits under tree canopy (about average for cities) and roughly 33% 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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How Noise Is Distributed Across Landen
The bar chart below shows the share of Landen residents in each noise band. About 36% of residents live below the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, and roughly 14% live in blocks above 60 dBA. Long-term exposure in that range is linked to elevated stress hormones and cardiovascular risk.
How Landen Compares
Landen sits at the louder end of the spectrum. Below: how Landen's average outdoor noise and share of residents above the EPA threshold compare with Kings Mills, Newtonsville, Elmwood Place, and Pleasant Plain.
Average noise level (dBA)
Landen's 57.0 dBA pop-weighted average is at the louder end of the spectrum. Ohio as a whole averages 51.1 dBA and the U.S. averages 52.0 dBA. Both are lower than Landen because most of either area is rural land away from major roads.
Share of residents above 55 dBA
About 50.8% of Landen 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, 67.3% of Landen's footprint sits above 55 dBA, against a Ohio average of 26.4% and a national average of 28.1%.
What This Means if You're Moving to Landen
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 23% of Landen is under tree cover (about average for cities), 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.
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.
