NoiseLevelCheck

Custer, SD Noise Levels

Is Custer, SD noisy?

Custer, SD sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. Custer's reading comes from a single sampled point, not a block-by-block sweep, so a specific address here could genuinely differ.

Where Custer ranks

There's no loudness rank for Custer: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. By population, it ranks 7,998 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 1,829 people.

Your street may differ from Custer's reading

This page describes Custer 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 Custer's reading

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