Somerville, AL Noise Levels
Is Somerville, AL noisy?
Somerville, AL 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 Somerville, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Somerville ranks
Somerville, AL 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 11,114 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 821 people.
Your street may differ from Somerville's reading
This page describes Somerville as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Somerville's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Somerville's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Somerville isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.