Pinehurst, NC Noise Levels
Is Pinehurst, NC noisy?
Pinehurst, NC sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. Pinehurst's reading comes from a single sampled point, not a block-by-block sweep, so a specific address here could genuinely differ.
Where Pinehurst ranks
Pinehurst, NC 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 2,055 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 18,502 people.
Your street may differ from Pinehurst's reading
This page describes Pinehurst as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Pinehurst's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Pinehurst's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Pinehurst isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.