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[quote=Anonymous]There’s something called the National Transportation Noise Map. You could look up any area you want nationwide by the type of traffic: planes, cars, trains, plains and cars combined. It’s an interesting little tool that seems to confirm some of the opinions expressed here. For example:

As it turns out, people claiming the city streets are noisier than the flight path areas would be wrong. Planes are worse by a wide margin.

In DC, for both the plane noise and combined plane/car noise, the Palisades and Foxhall are by far the noisiest (red color, which is better than say DCA itself which is purple), and then it gets progressively better going NE, cycling through the orange and then yellow which includes the Wesley Heights, Glover Park, Dupont Circle.

The quietest areas for the combined noise WOTP are Woodley Park (quieter than even the Observatory Circle areas), parts of Cleveland Park and Forest Hills. These areas also don’t get any plane noise.

The red areas exceed the DC noise regulations. Obviously on road noise alone, Palisades and Foxhall do very well, which I think demonstrates just what a big deal the plane noise has become.

Anyway, you can look up anywhere in the US. Also can interpret the data as you think makes more sense.

The only issue is that the data are a few years old (2018), but we know that outside of the pandemic period, plane and car noise have generally increased, so still valid. The worst of the plane noise in DC does seem more concentrated in 2018 than 2016 over a smaller area. (We do know from the posters here that some farther in areas in MoCo have been more affected since this data was posted).[/quote]

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