Buffalo, IA Noise Levels
Is Buffalo, IA noisy?
Buffalo, IA 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 Buffalo, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Buffalo ranks
Buffalo, IA sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. Population is about 1,163, 9,701th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Buffalo's reading
This page describes Buffalo as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Buffalo's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Buffalo's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Buffalo isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.