Wrightsville Beach, NC Noise Levels
Is Wrightsville Beach, NC noisy?
Wrightsville Beach, NC 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 Wrightsville Beach's Census-defined center point, not any one street, BTS's map is a live raster, not a per-address service.
Where Wrightsville Beach ranks
Wrightsville Beach, NC sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. About 2,411 people live there, making it the 7,011th largest place in this dataset.
Your street may differ from Wrightsville Beach's reading
This page describes Wrightsville Beach as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Wrightsville Beach's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Wrightsville Beach's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Wrightsville Beach isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.