Tucson, AZ Noise Levels
Is Tucson, AZ noisy?
Tucson, AZ sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. That's the reading at Tucson's Census-defined center point, not any one street, BTS's map is a live raster, not a per-address service.
Where Tucson ranks
Tucson is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. Population is about 554,013, 35th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Tucson's reading
This page describes Tucson as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Tucson's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Tucson's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Tucson isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.