“Is this neighborhood quiet?” is a very common question buyers ask, almost as common as “how often does the train run?”
This National Transportation Noise Map (archived: 2020) is one way to try to ascertain neighborhood transportation noise levels. (thanks to David Reese for finding this!)
CityLab had a story in 2015 about a tool called HowLoud; I’m not yet sure how accurate that tool is for the Charlottesville area, but I did find a nifty map at RentLingo that seems reasonably good (archived: 2020) (after spending 30 seconds there)
The Charlottesville Albemarle Airport paints a wide swath.
Related stories
- Scoring Neighborhood Noise Levels Using Sound Maps (archived: 2016)
- Noise pollution in your neighborhood (archived: 2019)
I’m writing this story more as a reference for myself and clients than anything else.
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