Carlsbad, NM Noise Levels
Is Carlsbad, NM noisy?
Carlsbad, NM 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 Carlsbad, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Carlsbad ranks
Carlsbad, NM 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 1,280 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 31,999 people.
Your street may differ from Carlsbad's reading
This page describes Carlsbad as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Carlsbad's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Carlsbad's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Carlsbad isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.