Chesapeake Beach, MD Noise Levels
Is Chesapeake Beach, MD noisy?
Chesapeake Beach, MD 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 Chesapeake Beach, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Chesapeake Beach ranks
There's no loudness rank for Chesapeake Beach: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. By population, it ranks 4,221 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 6,504 people.
Your street may differ from Chesapeake Beach's reading
This page describes Chesapeake Beach as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Chesapeake Beach's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Chesapeake Beach's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Chesapeake Beach isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.