Portsmouth, VA Noise Levels
How loud is Portsmouth, VA?
None of the three transportation sources BTS models, road, rail or aircraft, register above 45 dB(A) at Portsmouth, VA. This describes Portsmouth 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.
How Portsmouth compares nationally
There's no loudness rank for Portsmouth: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. Population is about 96,482, 358th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Checking one address in Portsmouth
Nothing here substitutes for checking one address in Portsmouth directly, and BTS's own map lets anyone do that at no cost.
Portsmouth's number isn't a one-off calculation, it comes from the same method covered in the methodology guide. See the why New York City shows up quiet here too for why a real place can show no reading at all.