Kiawah Island, SC Noise Levels
Is Kiawah Island, SC noisy?
Kiawah Island, SC 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 Kiawah Island, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Kiawah Island ranks
There's no loudness rank for Kiawah Island: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. By population, it ranks 7,672 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 2,003 people.
Your street may differ from Kiawah Island's reading
This page describes Kiawah Island as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Kiawah Island's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Kiawah Island's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Kiawah Island isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.