Ridgely, MD Noise Levels
Is Ridgely, MD noisy?
Ridgely, MD sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. This describes Ridgely 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 Ridgely ranks
There's no loudness rank for Ridgely: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. About 1,646 people live there, making it the 8,407th largest place in this dataset.
Your street may differ from Ridgely's reading
This page describes Ridgely as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Ridgely's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Ridgely's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Ridgely isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.