Shrewsbury, PA Noise Levels
Is Shrewsbury, PA noisy?
Shrewsbury, PA 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 Shrewsbury, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Shrewsbury ranks
There's no loudness rank for Shrewsbury: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. By population, it ranks 5,513 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 3,969 people.
Your street may differ from Shrewsbury's reading
This page describes Shrewsbury as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Shrewsbury's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Shrewsbury's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Shrewsbury isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.