Hillsborough, NC Noise Levels
Is Hillsborough, NC noisy?
Hillsborough, 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 Hillsborough, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Hillsborough ranks
There's no loudness rank for Hillsborough: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. By population, it ranks 3,255 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 9,773 people.
Your street may differ from Hillsborough's reading
This page describes Hillsborough as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Hillsborough's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Hillsborough's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Hillsborough isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.