Brownsville, TX Noise Levels
Is Brownsville, TX noisy?
Brownsville, TX sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. This describes Brownsville 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 Brownsville ranks
Brownsville is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. Population is about 191,967, 138th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Brownsville's reading
This page describes Brownsville as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Brownsville's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Brownsville's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Brownsville isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.