Lancaster, CA Noise Levels
Is Lancaster, CA noisy?
Lancaster, CA sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. That's the reading at Lancaster's Census-defined center point, not any one street, BTS's map is a live raster, not a per-address service.
Where Lancaster ranks
Lancaster 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 162 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 167,426 people.
Your street may differ from Lancaster's reading
This page describes Lancaster as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Lancaster's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Lancaster's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Lancaster isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.