San Antonio, TX Noise Levels
Is San Antonio, TX noisy?
San Antonio, TX 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.
Treat this as San Antonio's one representative point, not a promise about every block in it, BTS's map wasn't built to resolve individual streets.
San Antonio'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 San Antonio ranks
Among the 3,622 US places in this dataset with any measurable transportation noise, San Antonio ranks 1,774, loudest first. By population, it ranks 8 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 1,526,656 people.
Your street may differ from San Antonio's reading
This page describes San Antonio as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind San Antonio's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how San Antonio's reading was built from BTS's tile data. San Antonio isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.