Galena, IL Noise Levels
Is Galena, IL noisy?
Galena, IL sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. Galena's reading comes from a single sampled point, not a block-by-block sweep, so a specific address here could genuinely differ.
Where Galena ranks
There's no loudness rank for Galena: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. About 3,207 people live there, making it the 6,112th largest place in this dataset.
Your street may differ from Galena's reading
This page describes Galena as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Galena's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Galena's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Galena isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.