Athens, TX Noise Levels
Is Athens, TX noisy?
Athens, TX 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 Athens, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Athens ranks
Athens, TX sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. By population, it ranks 2,580 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 13,575 people.
Your street may differ from Athens's reading
This page describes Athens as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Athens's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Athens's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Athens isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.