Fairfax, IA Noise Levels
Is Fairfax, IA noisy?
Fairfax, IA sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. That figure is sampled at one coordinate, the Census Bureau's own internal point for Fairfax, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Fairfax ranks
Fairfax 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 6,384 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 2,937 people.
Your street may differ from Fairfax's reading
This page describes Fairfax as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Fairfax's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Fairfax's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Fairfax isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.