Kinston, NC Noise Levels
Kinston, NC: what the federal noise map shows
At Kinston, NC, road, rail and aircraft noise all fall below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's national map can distinguish from silence. That figure is sampled at one coordinate, the Census Bureau's own internal point for Kinston, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Kinston ranks
Kinston, NC sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. About 19,519 people live there, making it the 1,969th largest place in this dataset.
Your street may differ from Kinston's reading
For a single house or lot in Kinston rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.
More on how this number was built
For exactly which federal dataset feeds Kinston's figure, see the methodology guide. The guide to reading a quiet result explains what "no measurable noise" actually means at Kinston.