Alden, NY Noise Levels
Is Alden, NY noisy?
Alden, NY 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 Alden, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Alden ranks
Alden is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. By population, it ranks 6,585 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 2,764 people.
Your street may differ from Alden's reading
This page describes Alden as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Alden's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Alden's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Alden isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.