NoiseLevelCheck

Estherville, IA Noise Levels

Is Estherville, IA noisy?

Estherville, IA sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. This describes Estherville 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 Estherville ranks

There's no loudness rank for Estherville: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. By population, it ranks 4,490 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 5,796 people.

Your street may differ from Estherville's reading

This page describes Estherville 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 Estherville's reading

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