NoiseLevelCheck

Oxford, NC Noise Levels

Oxford, NC: what the federal noise map shows

At Oxford, NC, road, rail and aircraft noise all fall below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's national map can distinguish from silence. This describes Oxford as a whole, not a specific block, the underlying BTS map resolves to about 38 meters per pixel, sampled at the town's own center point.

Where Oxford ranks

Oxford 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 3,440 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 8,972 people.

Your street may differ from Oxford's reading

For a single house or lot in Oxford rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.

Look up Oxford directly on BTS's noise map

More on how this number was built

For exactly which federal dataset feeds Oxford's figure, see the methodology guide. The guide to reading a quiet result explains what "no measurable noise" actually means at Oxford.