Ithaca, NY Noise Levels
Is Ithaca, NY noisy?
Ithaca, NY sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. That's the reading at Ithaca's Census-defined center point, not any one street, BTS's map is a live raster, not a per-address service.
Where Ithaca ranks
Ithaca, NY sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. Population is about 33,768, 1,219th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Ithaca's reading
This page describes Ithaca as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Ithaca's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Ithaca's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Ithaca isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.