Champaign, IL Noise Levels
Is Champaign, IL noisy?
Champaign, IL sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. Treat this as Champaign's one representative point, not a promise about every block in it, BTS's map wasn't built to resolve individual streets.
Where Champaign ranks
Champaign 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 382 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 91,961 people.
Your street may differ from Champaign's reading
This page describes Champaign as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Champaign's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Champaign's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Champaign isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.