Tuscaloosa, AL Noise Levels
Is Tuscaloosa, AL noisy?
Tuscaloosa, AL 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 Tuscaloosa's Census-defined center point, not any one street, BTS's map is a live raster, not a per-address service.
Where Tuscaloosa ranks
Tuscaloosa, 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 277 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 114,288 people.
Your street may differ from Tuscaloosa's reading
This page describes Tuscaloosa as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Tuscaloosa's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Tuscaloosa's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Tuscaloosa isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.