Hays, KS Noise Levels
Is Hays, KS noisy?
Hays, KS sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. Hays's reading comes from a single sampled point, not a block-by-block sweep, so a specific address here could genuinely differ.
Where Hays ranks
Hays 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 1,832 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 21,213 people.
Your street may differ from Hays's reading
This page describes Hays as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Hays's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Hays's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Hays isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.