Noise Levels in Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar, Pittsburgh, PA | Find Quiet Neighborhoods With Our Sound Map
56 dBA
Average noise across Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar
Quiet office to normal conversation
1,296
Residents above the EPA 55 dBA threshold
47% of Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar residents
69 dBA
Loudest residential point
Highway traffic 50 ft away
This map shows modeled outdoor noise across Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar 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 1,296 Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar residents, or 46.6%, live above that level. By land area, 55.4% of Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar is above 55 dBA.
Average noise levels for Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar residents, grouped by direction from the center of Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar. Southern Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar carries the highest population-weighted average; Northern Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar carries the lowest. Just 16% of residents in Northern Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar live in blocks above the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, about half the share in Southern Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar.
Central Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar
56.1 dBA · Moderate-loud
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
49% of people above 55 dBA
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Eastern Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar
56.4 dBA · Moderate-loud
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
51% of people above 55 dBA
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Northern Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar
50.9 dBA · Moderate
Quiet office
16% of people above 55 dBA
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Southern Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar
57.4 dBA · Moderate-loud
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
48% of people above 55 dBA
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Western Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar
57.1 dBA · Moderate-loud
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
56% of people above 55 dBA
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Southern Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar sounds about 57% louder than Northern Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar to the human ear, a 6.5 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 Washington BL do you need to be?
Washington BL produces an estimated 65 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
65 dBA
Busy restaurant
165 ft
53 dBA
Quiet office to normal conversation
330 ft
45 dBA
Quiet suburban street at night
660 ft
38 dBA
Soft rainfall
¼ mile
35 dBA
Soft rainfall
½ mile
35 dBA
Soft rainfall
Calculated from the model's calibrated attenuation formula. About 41% of Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar sits under tree canopy (much heavier than most neighborhoods) and roughly 34% 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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Rail Noise
Active freight rail runs through parts of Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar. For most blocks the rail-only contribution is small. Combined road-plus-rail noise rarely exceeds road noise on its own. The exceptions are the handful of blocks within roughly a quarter mile of the right-of-way during pass-through hours.
Use the Rail toggle on the map above to isolate rail's contribution from road and aviation.
Airport Noise
Pittsburgh International (PIT) sits west of Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar. 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 Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar, particularly to the east, show no measurable aviation contribution. Use the Aviation toggle on the map above to isolate the airport's footprint.
How Noise Is Distributed Across Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar
The bar chart below shows the share of Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar residents in each noise band. About 21% of residents live below the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, and roughly 7% live in blocks above 60 dBA. Long-term exposure in that range is linked to elevated stress hormones and cardiovascular risk.
How Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar Compares
Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar sits the lowest among the peer group. Below: how Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar's average outdoor noise and share of residents above the EPA threshold compare with Garfield, Central Lawrenceville, Homewood North, and Perry South.
Average noise level (dBA)
Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar's 55.8 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 Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar because most of either area is rural land away from major roads.
Share of residents above 55 dBA
About 46.6% of Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar residents live in blocks where outdoor levels exceed the EPA's 55 dBA threshold. That's fewer than any of its peer group. Measured by land area instead, 55.4% of Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar'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 Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar
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 Washington BL 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 41% of Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar is under tree cover (much 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. Pittsburgh International's approach paths concentrate aviation noise to the west. Neighborhoods to the east 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.
