Statesville, NC Noise Levels
Is Statesville, NC noisy?
Statesville, NC 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 Statesville, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Statesville ranks
Statesville 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 1,292 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 31,693 people.
Your street may differ from Statesville's reading
This page describes Statesville as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Statesville's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Statesville's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Statesville isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.