Bluefield, VA Noise Levels
Is Bluefield, VA noisy?
Bluefield, VA sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. That figure is sampled at one coordinate, the Census Bureau's own internal point for Bluefield, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Bluefield ranks
There's no loudness rank for Bluefield: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. Population is about 4,871, 4,948th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Bluefield's reading
This page describes Bluefield as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Bluefield's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Bluefield's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Bluefield isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.