{"id":3012,"date":"2017-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/find-out-how-noisy-your-city-is\/"},"modified":"2017-04-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T00:00:00","slug":"find-out-how-noisy-your-city-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/find-out-how-noisy-your-city-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Out How Noisy Your City Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"39.42908762421\">\n<!--\n\n<pre>-->  <\/p>\n<div property=\"dc:description\" readability=\"29.571815718157\"><!--paging_filter--><\/p>\n<p>How is your city\u2019s noise pollution? The Department of Transportation has released a National Noise Map\u00a0for you to find out. The heat map reveals the medium to loud sounds surrounding 97 percent of the population. The map focuses on airplane and road noise, with views from a national to county level.<\/p>\n<p>Areas that appear in blue to deep purple on the map are considered the noisiest, in which nearby residents are exposed to 80 to 95 decibels regularly.\u00a0The majority of blue to purple areas are near one of the noisiest offenders: airports or along flight paths.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, light yellow and orange areas on the map are the quietest, with transportation noise at about 35 to 40 decibels.<\/p>\n<p>The map breaks down the sound levels, equating it to the noise levels from a refrigerator humming to a garbage disposal.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A chart that compares the level of background noise in counties to typical household background noise.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/realtormag.realtor.org\/sites\/realtormag.realtor.org\/files\/rmo_files\/170405Noise%20Map%20key.png\" style=\"width: 507px; height: 300px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Transportation culled data from the Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Highway Administration to create the map.<\/p>\n<p>View the map here.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Department of Transportation and \u201cNational Noise Map Charts Americans\u2019 Aural Misery,\u201d Wired.com (March 24, 2017)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DailyRealEstateNews\/~3\/z7J0PYMDfCM\/find-out-how-noisy-your-city\"> link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is your city\u2019s noise pollution? The Department of Transportation has released a National Noise Map\u00a0for &hellip; <a title=\"Find Out How Noisy Your City Is\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/find-out-how-noisy-your-city-is\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Find Out How Noisy Your City Is<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[518,617,41,818],"class_list":["post-3012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-america","tag-house","tag-property","tag-real"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/170405Noise%20Map%20key.png?fit=507%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}