Greensboro, NC Noise Levels
Is Greensboro, NC noisy?
Greensboro, NC 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 Greensboro, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Greensboro ranks
There's no loudness rank for Greensboro: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. About 307,381 people live there, making it the 71th largest place in this dataset.
Your street may differ from Greensboro's reading
This page describes Greensboro as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Greensboro's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Greensboro's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Greensboro isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.