Gaston, NC Noise Levels
Gaston, NC: what the federal noise map shows
At Gaston, NC, road, rail and aircraft noise all fall below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's national map can distinguish from silence. Gaston's reading comes from a single sampled point, not a block-by-block sweep, so a specific address here could genuinely differ.
Where Gaston ranks
Gaston, NC 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 10,403 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 967 people.
Your street may differ from Gaston's reading
For a single house or lot in Gaston rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.
More on how this number was built
For exactly which federal dataset feeds Gaston's figure, see the methodology guide. The guide to reading a quiet result explains what "no measurable noise" actually means at Gaston.