Charlestown, MD Noise Levels
Is Charlestown, MD noisy?
Charlestown, MD 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 Charlestown's Census-defined center point, not any one street, BTS's map is a live raster, not a per-address service.
Where Charlestown ranks
Charlestown 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 1,538, 8,639th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Charlestown's reading
This page describes Charlestown as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Charlestown's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Charlestown's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Charlestown isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.