Wake Forest, NC Noise Levels
Is Wake Forest, NC noisy?
Wake Forest, NC sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. This describes Wake Forest 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 Wake Forest ranks
Wake Forest, 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 56,764, 726th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Wake Forest's reading
This page describes Wake Forest as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Wake Forest's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Wake Forest's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Wake Forest isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.