Bowie, MD Noise Levels
Bowie, MD: what the federal noise map shows
At Bowie, MD, road, rail and aircraft noise all fall below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's national map can distinguish from silence. This describes Bowie as a whole, not a specific block, the underlying BTS map resolves to about 38 meters per pixel, sampled at the town's own center point.
Where Bowie ranks
There's no loudness rank for Bowie: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. By population, it ranks 700 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 58,421 people.
Your street may differ from Bowie's reading
For a single house or lot in Bowie rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.
More on how this number was built
For exactly which federal dataset feeds Bowie's figure, see the methodology guide. The guide to reading a quiet result explains what "no measurable noise" actually means at Bowie.