Noise Levels in Village at North Hills, Northglenn, CO | Find Quiet Neighborhoods With Our Sound Map
57 dBA
Average noise across Village at North Hills
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
2,726
Residents above the EPA 55 dBA threshold
56% of Village at North Hills residents
79 dBA
Loudest residential point
City bus interior
This map shows modeled outdoor noise across Village at North Hills 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 2,726 Village at North Hills residents, or 55.7%, live above that level. By land area, 65.1% of Village at North Hills is above 55 dBA.
Average noise levels for Village at North Hills residents, grouped by direction from the center of Village at North Hills. Central Village at North Hills carries the highest population-weighted average; Western Village at North Hills carries the lowest. Just 32% of residents in Western Village at North Hills live in blocks above the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, about two-thirds of the share in Central Village at North Hills.
Central Village at North Hills
58.0 dBA · Loud
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
51% of people above 55 dBA
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Eastern Village at North Hills
57.5 dBA · Moderate-loud
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
44% of people above 55 dBA
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Northern Village at North Hills
56.0 dBA · Moderate-loud
Quiet office to normal conversation
60% of people above 55 dBA
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Southern Village at North Hills
57.9 dBA · Moderate-loud
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
72% of people above 55 dBA
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Western Village at North Hills
52.7 dBA · Moderate
Quiet office to normal conversation
32% of people above 55 dBA
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Central Village at North Hills sounds about 44% louder than Western Village at North Hills to the human ear, a 5.3 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 79 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
79 dBA
City bus interior
165 ft
65 dBA
Busy restaurant
330 ft
56 dBA
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
660 ft
48 dBA
Quiet office
¼ mile
40 dBA
Soft rainfall
½ mile
35 dBA
Soft rainfall
Calculated from the model's calibrated attenuation formula. About 9% of Village at North Hills 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
Denver International (DEN) sits east of Village at North Hills. The U.S. Department of Transportation measures aviation noise around this airport directly, 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 75 dBA on the map's Overall layer. Blocks on the opposite side of Village at North Hills, particularly to the west, show no measurable aviation contribution. Use the Aviation toggle on the map above to isolate the airport's footprint.
How Noise Is Distributed Across Village at North Hills
The bar chart below shows the share of Village at North Hills residents in each noise band. About 40% of residents live below the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, and roughly 27% live in blocks above 60 dBA. Long-term exposure in that range is linked to elevated stress hormones and cardiovascular risk.
How Village at North Hills Compares
Village at North Hills sits the highest among the peer group. Below: how Village at North Hills's average outdoor noise and share of residents above the EPA threshold compare with Original Thornton, Lamar Heights Area, Arvada Plaza Area, and Northwest Arvada.
Average noise level (dBA)
Village at North Hills's 57.2 dBA pop-weighted average is the highest among the peer group. Colorado as a whole averages 51.9 dBA and the U.S. averages 52.0 dBA. Both are lower than Village at North Hills because most of either area is rural land away from major roads.
Share of residents above 55 dBA
About 55.7% of Village at North Hills residents live in blocks where outdoor levels exceed the EPA's 55 dBA threshold. That's more than any of its peer group. Measured by land area instead, 65.1% of Village at North Hills's footprint sits above 55 dBA, against a Colorado average of 25.4% and a national average of 28.1%.
What This Means if You're Moving to Village at North Hills
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 9% of Village at North Hills 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. Denver International's approach paths concentrate aviation noise to the east. Neighborhoods to the west 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.
