Noise Levels in Orrville Junction, OH | Find Quiet Neighborhoods With Our Sound Map

40 dBA

Average noise across Orrville Junction

Soft rainfall

Residents above the EPA 55 dBA threshold

0% of Orrville Junction residents

55 dBA

Loudest residential point

Quiet office to normal conversation

This map shows modeled outdoor noise across Orrville Junction 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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Orrville Junction, OH Map of Noise Levels in Orrville Junction

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 Orrville Junction residents, or 0.1%, live above that level. By land area, 0.3% of Orrville Junction is above 55 dBA.

99.7% below 55 dBA

0.3% above 55 dBA

See how noise in Orrville Junction compares to similar-sized cities.

Eastern Orrville Junction sounds about 0% louder than Western Orrville Junction 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 Orrville Junction

The bar chart below shows the share of Orrville Junction 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 Orrville Junction Compares

Orrville Junction sits at the quieter end of the spectrum. Below: how Orrville Junction's average outdoor noise and share of residents above the EPA threshold compare with East Union, Hills and Dales, Funk, and Reedsburg.

Average noise level (dBA)

Orrville Junction's 40.4 dBA pop-weighted average is at the quieter end of the spectrum. Ohio as a whole averages 51.1 dBA and the U.S. averages 52.0 dBA. Both are lower than Orrville Junction because most of either area is rural land away from major roads.

Share of residents above 55 dBA

About 0.1% of Orrville Junction 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, 0.3% of Orrville Junction'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 Orrville Junction

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 0% of Orrville Junction is under tree cover (much 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.