Alameda, CA Noise Levels

Alameda, CA: what the federal noise map shows

At Alameda, CA, road, rail and aircraft noise all fall below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's national map can distinguish from silence. That figure is sampled at one coordinate, the Census Bureau's own internal point for Alameda, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.

Where Alameda ranks

Alameda, CA sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. By population, it ranks 476 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 78,795 people.

Your street may differ from Alameda's reading

For a single house or lot in Alameda rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.

Check one address in Alameda on BTS's own map

More on how this number was built

For exactly which federal dataset feeds Alameda's figure, see the methodology guide. The guide to reading a quiet result explains what "no measurable noise" actually means at Alameda.