Ponca City, OK Noise Levels
Is Ponca City, OK noisy?
Ponca City, OK reads 47.5 dB(A) on BTS's 24-hour average, inside HUD's "Acceptable" noise zone, 65 dB(A) day-night average or below under 24 CFR 51.104, the federal government's own line for building housing with no extra sound attenuation required.
That figure is sampled at one coordinate, the Census Bureau's own internal point for Ponca City, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Ponca City's noise, by source
Each of the three transportation modes gets its own model from BTS; the combined figure above is what they add up to.
Where Ponca City ranks
Among the 3,622 US places in this dataset with any measurable transportation noise, Ponca City ranks 2,071, loudest first. By population, it ranks 1,654 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 24,234 people.
Your street may differ from Ponca City's reading
This page describes Ponca City as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Ponca City's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Ponca City's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Ponca City isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.