NoiseLevelCheck

Bloomington, IN Noise Levels

Is Bloomington, IN noisy?

Bloomington, IN sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. Treat this as Bloomington's one representative point, not a promise about every block in it, BTS's map wasn't built to resolve individual streets.

Where Bloomington ranks

Bloomington is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. Population is about 79,986, 466th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.

Your street may differ from Bloomington's reading

This page describes Bloomington as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.

See BTS's official National Transportation Noise Map

Behind Bloomington's reading

The methodology guide shows exactly how Bloomington's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Bloomington isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.