Downs, KS Noise Levels
Is Downs, KS noisy?
Downs, KS sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. That's the reading at Downs's Census-defined center point, not any one street, BTS's map is a live raster, not a per-address service.
Where Downs ranks
Downs 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 772, 11,368th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Downs's reading
This page describes Downs as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Downs's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Downs's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Downs isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.