Noise Levels in Pine Brook, Camp Hill, PA | Find Quiet Neighborhoods With Our Sound Map
57 dBA
Average noise across Pine Brook
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
1,240
Residents above the EPA 55 dBA threshold
50% of Pine Brook residents
79 dBA
Loudest residential point
City bus interior
This map shows modeled outdoor noise across Pine Brook 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 1,240 Pine Brook residents, or 49.7%, live above that level. By land area, 49.7% of Pine Brook is above 55 dBA.
Average noise levels for Pine Brook residents, grouped by direction from the center of Pine Brook. Southern Pine Brook carries the highest population-weighted average; Central Pine Brook carries the lowest. Just 23% of residents in Central Pine Brook live in blocks above the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, about half the share in Southern Pine Brook.
Central Pine Brook
53.6 dBA · Moderate-loud
Quiet office to normal conversation
23% of people above 55 dBA
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Eastern Pine Brook
57.7 dBA · Moderate-loud
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
74% of people above 55 dBA
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Northern Pine Brook
56.8 dBA · Moderate-loud
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
55% of people above 55 dBA
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Southern Pine Brook
59.1 dBA · Loud
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
55% of people above 55 dBA
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Western Pine Brook
57.2 dBA · Moderate-loud
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
49% of people above 55 dBA
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Southern Pine Brook sounds about 46% louder than Central Pine Brook to the human ear, a 5.5 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 Bw00 Lamp Post Ln do you need to be?
Bw00 Lamp Post Ln produces an estimated 60 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
60 dBA
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
165 ft
48 dBA
Quiet office
330 ft
41 dBA
Quiet suburban street at night
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 49% of Pine Brook sits under tree canopy (much heavier than most neighborhoods) and roughly 27% 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 Pine Brook
The bar chart below shows the share of Pine Brook residents in each noise band. About 31% of residents live below the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, and roughly 12% live in blocks above 60 dBA. Long-term exposure in that range is linked to elevated stress hormones and cardiovascular risk.
How Pine Brook Compares
Pine Brook sits the lowest among the peer group. Below: how Pine Brook's average outdoor noise and share of residents above the EPA threshold compare with Camp Curtin, Midtown Harrisburg, Hall Manor, and oakleigh-harrisburg-pa.
Average noise level (dBA)
Pine Brook's 56.9 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 Pine Brook because most of either area is rural land away from major roads.
Share of residents above 55 dBA
About 49.7% of Pine Brook 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, 49.7% of Pine Brook'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 Pine Brook
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 Bw00 Lamp Post Ln 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 49% of Pine Brook 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.
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.
