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Sanford, ME Noise Levels

Sanford, ME: what the federal noise map shows

At Sanford, ME, road, rail and aircraft noise all fall below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's national map can distinguish from silence. That's the reading at Sanford's Census-defined center point, not any one street, BTS's map is a live raster, not a per-address service.

Where Sanford ranks

Sanford is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. By population, it ranks 1,755 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 22,497 people.

Your street may differ from Sanford's reading

For a single house or lot in Sanford rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.

Check one address in Sanford on BTS's own map

More on how this number was built

For exactly which federal dataset feeds Sanford's figure, see the methodology guide. The guide to reading a quiet result explains what "no measurable noise" actually means at Sanford.