Houston, TX Noise Levels
How loud is Houston, TX?
None of the three transportation sources BTS models, road, rail or aircraft, register above 45 dB(A) at Houston, TX. Treat this as Houston's one representative point, not a promise about every block in it, BTS's map wasn't built to resolve individual streets.
How Houston compares nationally
Houston is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. By population, it ranks 5 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 2,390,125 people.
Checking one address in Houston
Nothing here substitutes for checking one address in Houston directly, and BTS's own map lets anyone do that at no cost.
Houston's number isn't a one-off calculation, it comes from the same method covered in the methodology guide. See the why New York City shows up quiet here too for why a real place can show no reading at all.