Noise Levels in Spencer View Terrace, Deer Park, TX | Find Quiet Neighborhoods With Our Sound Map
49 dBA
Average noise across Spencer View Terrace
Quiet office
170
Residents above the EPA 55 dBA threshold
11% of Spencer View Terrace residents
67 dBA
Loudest residential point
Highway traffic 50 ft away
This map shows modeled outdoor noise across Spencer View Terrace 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 170 Spencer View Terrace residents, or 11.1%, live above that level. By land area, 60.3% of Spencer View Terrace is above 55 dBA.
Average noise levels for Spencer View Terrace residents, grouped by direction from the center of Spencer View Terrace. Southern Spencer View Terrace carries the highest population-weighted average; Central Spencer View Terrace carries the lowest. Just 7% of residents in Central Spencer View Terrace live in blocks above the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, a fifth of the share in Southern Spencer View Terrace.
Central Spencer View Terrace
48.6 dBA · Mostly quiet
Quiet office
7% of people above 55 dBA
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Eastern Spencer View Terrace
58.4 dBA · Loud
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
56% of people above 55 dBA
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Northern Spencer View Terrace
54.0 dBA · Moderate-loud
Quiet office to normal conversation
33% of people above 55 dBA
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Southern Spencer View Terrace
65.5 dBA · Loud
Busy restaurant
100% of people above 55 dBA
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Southern Spencer View Terrace sounds about 223% louder than Central Spencer View Terrace to the human ear, a 16.9 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 67 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
67 dBA
Highway traffic 50 ft away
165 ft
53 dBA
Quiet office to normal conversation
330 ft
45 dBA
Quiet suburban street at night
660 ft
37 dBA
Soft rainfall
¼ mile
35 dBA
Soft rainfall
½ mile
35 dBA
Soft rainfall
Calculated from the model's calibrated attenuation formula. About 10% of Spencer View Terrace sits under tree canopy (lighter than most neighborhoods) and roughly 59% 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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Airport Noise
William P Hobby (HOU) sits west of Spencer View Terrace. 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 Spencer View Terrace, 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 Spencer View Terrace
The bar chart below shows the share of Spencer View Terrace residents in each noise band. About 89% of residents live below the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, and roughly 3% live in blocks above 60 dBA. Long-term exposure in that range is linked to elevated stress hormones and cardiovascular risk.
How Spencer View Terrace Compares
Spencer View Terrace sits the lowest among the peer group. Below: how Spencer View Terrace's average outdoor noise and share of residents above the EPA threshold compare with shaver-place-pasadena-tx, mount-vernon-pasadena-tx, fairmont-park-la-porte-tx, and the-forest-friendswood-tx.
Average noise level (dBA)
Spencer View Terrace's 49.4 dBA pop-weighted average is the lowest among the peer group. Texas as a whole averages 50.8 dBA and the U.S. averages 52.0 dBA. Both are lower than Spencer View Terrace because most of either area is rural land away from major roads.
Share of residents above 55 dBA
About 11.1% of Spencer View Terrace 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, 60.3% of Spencer View Terrace's footprint sits above 55 dBA, against a Texas average of 22.8% and a national average of 28.1%.
What This Means if You're Moving to Spencer View Terrace
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 10% of Spencer View Terrace is under tree cover (lighter than most neighborhoods), and the dominant land cover is medium-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. William P Hobby'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.
