Essex, IL Noise Levels
Is Essex, IL noisy?
Essex, IL sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. This describes Essex as a whole, not a specific block, the underlying BTS map resolves to about 38 meters per pixel, sampled at the town's own center point.
Where Essex ranks
Essex 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 853, 10,939th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Essex's reading
This page describes Essex as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Essex's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Essex's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Essex isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.