Gastonia, NC Noise Levels
Is Gastonia, NC noisy?
Gastonia, NC sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. This describes Gastonia as a whole, not a specific block, the underlying BTS map resolves to about 38 meters per pixel, sampled at the town's own center point.
Where Gastonia ranks
Gastonia, NC sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. About 85,535 people live there, making it the 427th largest place in this dataset.
Your street may differ from Gastonia's reading
This page describes Gastonia as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Gastonia's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Gastonia's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Gastonia isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.