Noise Levels in White Settlement, TX | Find Quiet Neighborhoods With Our Sound Map
51 dBA
Average noise across White Settlement
Quiet office to normal conversation
3,175
Residents above the EPA 55 dBA threshold
28% of White Settlement residents
81 dBA
Loudest residential point
Food blender at arm’s length
This map shows modeled outdoor noise across White Settlement 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 3,175 White Settlement residents, or 28.4%, live above that level. By land area, 31.2% of White Settlement is above 55 dBA.
Average noise levels for White Settlement residents, grouped by direction from the center of White Settlement. Western White Settlement carries the highest population-weighted average; Eastern White Settlement carries the lowest. Just 18% of residents in Eastern White Settlement live in blocks above the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, about half the share in Western White Settlement.
Central White Settlement
48.9 dBA · Mostly quiet
Quiet office
10% of people above 55 dBA
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Eastern White Settlement
47.8 dBA · Mostly quiet
Quiet office
18% of people above 55 dBA
QuietLoud
Northern White Settlement
51.8 dBA · Moderate
Quiet office to normal conversation
31% of people above 55 dBA
QuietLoud
Southern White Settlement
52.7 dBA · Moderate
Quiet office to normal conversation
33% of people above 55 dBA
QuietLoud
Western White Settlement
54.2 dBA · Moderate-loud
Quiet office to normal conversation
37% of people above 55 dBA
QuietLoud
Western White Settlement sounds about 56% louder than Eastern White Settlement to the human ear, a 6.4 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 I-30 do you need to be?
I-30 produces an estimated 78 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
78 dBA
City bus interior
165 ft
64 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 10% of White Settlement sits under tree canopy (lighter than most cities) and roughly 47% 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
Dallas-Fort Worth International (DFW) sits east of White Settlement. 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 White Settlement, 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 White Settlement
The bar chart below shows the share of White Settlement residents in each noise band. About 66% of residents live below the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, and roughly 4% live in blocks above 60 dBA. Long-term exposure in that range is linked to elevated stress hormones and cardiovascular risk.
How White Settlement Compares
White Settlement sits at the quieter end of the spectrum. Below: how White Settlement's average outdoor noise and share of residents above the EPA threshold compare with Benbrook, Aledo, Saginaw, and Forest Hill.
Average noise level (dBA)
White Settlement's 51.3 dBA pop-weighted average is at the quieter end of the spectrum. Texas as a whole averages 50.8 dBA and the U.S. averages 52.0 dBA. Both are lower than White Settlement because most of either area is rural land away from major roads.
Share of residents above 55 dBA
About 28.4% of White Settlement 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, 31.2% of White Settlement'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 White Settlement
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 I-30 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 White Settlement is under tree cover (lighter than most cities), 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. Dallas-Fort Worth 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.
