Port Orchard, WA Noise Levels
Is Port Orchard, WA noisy?
Port Orchard, WA sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. This describes Port Orchard 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 Port Orchard ranks
There's no loudness rank for Port Orchard: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. About 19,122 people live there, making it the 2,005th largest place in this dataset.
Your street may differ from Port Orchard's reading
This page describes Port Orchard as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Port Orchard's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Port Orchard's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Port Orchard isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.