Melrose, MA Noise Levels
Is Melrose, MA noisy?
Melrose, MA sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. Treat this as Melrose's one representative point, not a promise about every block in it, BTS's map wasn't built to resolve individual streets.
Where Melrose ranks
Melrose, MA sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. Population is about 29,938, 1,359th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Melrose's reading
This page describes Melrose as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Melrose's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Melrose's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Melrose isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.