Sunset Beach, NC Noise Levels
Is Sunset Beach, NC noisy?
Sunset Beach, NC sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. This describes Sunset Beach as a whole, not a specific block, the underlying BTS map resolves to about 38 meters per pixel, sampled at the town's own center point.
Where Sunset Beach ranks
Sunset Beach, NC sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. Population is about 4,521, 5,177th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Sunset Beach's reading
This page describes Sunset Beach as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Sunset Beach's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Sunset Beach's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Sunset Beach isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.