Broken Bow, NE Noise Levels
Broken Bow, NE: what the federal noise map shows
Broken Bow, NE reads 85 dB(A) on BTS's 24-hour average, inside HUD's "Unacceptable" noise zone, above 75 dB(A), the most severe category HUD's own housing rules recognize. Rail traffic drives that number here, not the other two sources. That figure is sampled at one coordinate, the Census Bureau's own internal point for Broken Bow, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Broken Bow's noise, by source
Each of the three transportation modes gets its own model from BTS; the combined figure above is what they add up to.
What this means for a house here
That also clears FHWA's own 66 dB(A) impact threshold for residential land use (23 CFR 772, Table 1), the level highway agencies use to decide whether a new road needs a sound wall. The same window and door upgrades that work on road noise also cut broadband rail noise, though very low-frequency freight rumble travels through walls, not just glass.
Where Broken Bow ranks
Among the 3,622 US places in this dataset with any measurable transportation noise, Broken Bow ranks 9, loudest first. By population, it ranks 5,872 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 3,491 people.
Your street may differ from Broken Bow's reading
For a single house or lot in Broken Bow rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.
More on how this number was built
For exactly which federal dataset feeds Broken Bow's figure, see the methodology guide. Since rail traffic is what's driving this reading, the guide to what actually cuts each kind of noise covers the fix that fits.