Elon, NC Noise Levels
Is Elon, NC noisy?
Elon, NC 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 Elon's Census-defined center point, not any one street, BTS's map is a live raster, not a per-address service.
Where Elon ranks
Elon, NC sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. Population is about 11,282, 2,933th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Elon's reading
This page describes Elon as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Elon's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Elon's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Elon isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.