Blacksburg, VA Noise Levels
Is Blacksburg, VA noisy?
Blacksburg, VA sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. That's the reading at Blacksburg's Census-defined center point, not any one street, BTS's map is a live raster, not a per-address service.
Where Blacksburg ranks
Blacksburg, VA sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. Population is about 45,452, 908th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Blacksburg's reading
This page describes Blacksburg as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Blacksburg's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Blacksburg's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Blacksburg isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.