Stockton noise map: where the city is loudest

Stockton is a freight city in every direction. I-5 runs through downtown and the Route 4 Crosstown Freeway cuts straight across the city’s middle — a 1960s alignment that demolished much of the historic Little Manila district, one of the era’s textbook freeway-through-the-neighborhood decisions. Highway 99 closes the loop along the eastern edge.

Then comes the freight that isn’t on rubber wheels: Stockton operates an inland deep-water port reached by ship channel from the Bay, and BNSF runs a major intermodal facility on the city’s edge with Union Pacific’s yard just south. Between the highways, the port and the rail corridors, the tract map shows orange threading through a city that handles a remarkable share of Northern California’s goods movement for its size.

Stockton noise: the specifics

• The Route 4 Crosstown Freeway’s 1960s construction demolished much of the historic Little Manila neighborhood.
• Stockton operates an inland deep-water seaport, reached by ship channel from San Francisco Bay.
• BNSF runs a major intermodal rail facility at the city’s edge, with Union Pacific’s yard just south in Lathrop.
• 9.2% of residents above 60 dB ranks #20 of 297 US cities — see the full measured ranking.