Vancouver, WA Noise Levels
Is Vancouver, WA noisy?
Vancouver, WA 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 Vancouver, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Vancouver ranks
Vancouver, WA sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. About 198,992 people live there, making it the 132th largest place in this dataset.
Your street may differ from Vancouver's reading
This page describes Vancouver as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Vancouver's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Vancouver's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Vancouver isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.