Oakland, MD Noise Levels
Is Oakland, MD noisy?
Oakland, MD sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. Treat this as Oakland's one representative point, not a promise about every block in it, BTS's map wasn't built to resolve individual streets.
Where Oakland ranks
Oakland, MD sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. By population, it ranks 8,027 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 1,813 people.
Your street may differ from Oakland's reading
This page describes Oakland as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Oakland's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Oakland's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Oakland isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.