Forest Hills, PA Noise Levels
Is Forest Hills, PA noisy?
Forest Hills, PA 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 Forest Hills's Census-defined center point, not any one street, BTS's map is a live raster, not a per-address service.
Where Forest Hills ranks
Forest Hills is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. About 6,186 people live there, making it the 4,338th largest place in this dataset.
Your street may differ from Forest Hills's reading
This page describes Forest Hills as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Forest Hills's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Forest Hills's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Forest Hills isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.