Santa Monica, CA Noise Levels
Is Santa Monica, CA noisy?
Santa Monica, CA sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike.
That figure is sampled at one coordinate, the Census Bureau's own internal point for Santa Monica, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Santa Monica ranks
Santa Monica is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. Population is about 90,729, 390th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Santa Monica's reading
This page describes Santa Monica as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Santa Monica's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Santa Monica's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Santa Monica isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.