County noise profile
Traffic noise in Broward County, FL
Built from the US DOT National Transportation Noise Map (2020, 30-metre modeling grid, tract aggregation per Seto & Huang 2023) — the same public dataset used in the economics literature on what noise does to home values.
Average transportation noise (population-weighted)
44.8 dB
Residents above 60 dB
5%
Residents above 70 dB
1%
Population covered
1,942,273
Census tracts analyzed
416
Median home value
$471,900
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Data sources:US DOT/BTS National Transportation Noise Map (2020; all transportation modes; public domain), tract aggregation per Seto & Huang (2023); US Census Bureau ACS (median home values); NBER Working Paper 34298 (Moretti & Wheeler, 2025) for the capitalization methodology. Learn our methodology. Generated 2026-07-07.