Portales, NM Noise Levels
Is Portales, NM noisy?
Portales, NM sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. Portales's reading comes from a single sampled point, not a block-by-block sweep, so a specific address here could genuinely differ.
Where Portales ranks
There's no loudness rank for Portales: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. Population is about 11,789, 2,845th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Portales's reading
This page describes Portales as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Portales's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Portales's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Portales isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.