Highlands, NC Noise Levels
Is Highlands, NC noisy?
Highlands, NC sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. Highlands's reading comes from a single sampled point, not a block-by-block sweep, so a specific address here could genuinely differ.
Where Highlands ranks
Highlands, 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 9,829 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 1,119 people.
Your street may differ from Highlands's reading
This page describes Highlands as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Highlands's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Highlands's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Highlands isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.