Shafter, CA Noise Levels
Is Shafter, CA noisy?
Shafter, 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 Shafter, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Shafter ranks
Shafter, CA sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. By population, it ranks 1,736 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 22,754 people.
Your street may differ from Shafter's reading
This page describes Shafter as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Shafter's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Shafter's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Shafter isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.