Leadington, MO Noise Levels
Leadington, MO: what the federal noise map shows
Leadington, MO's 70-79.9 dB(A) band spans one of HUD's zone boundaries, so the honest answer is a range: somewhere between "Normally Unacceptable" (65-75 dB(A)) and "Unacceptable" (above 75 dB(A)), not one clean verdict. Road traffic drives that number here, not the other two sources. That's the reading at Leadington's Census-defined center point, not any one street, BTS's map is a live raster, not a per-address service.
Leadington's noise, by source
Each of the three transportation modes gets its own model from BTS; the combined figure above is what they add up to.
What this means for a house here
That also clears FHWA's own 66 dB(A) impact threshold for residential land use (23 CFR 772, Table 1), the level highway agencies use to decide whether a new road needs a sound wall. Upgraded windows, door seals and STC-rated glazing meaningfully cut broadband, near-continuous road noise.
Where Leadington ranks
Among the 3,622 US places in this dataset with any measurable transportation noise, Leadington ranks 69, loudest first. By population, it ranks 11,430 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 763 people.
Your street may differ from Leadington's reading
For a single house or lot in Leadington rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.
More on how this number was built
For exactly which federal dataset feeds Leadington's figure, see the methodology guide. Since road traffic is what's driving this reading, the guide to what actually cuts each kind of noise covers the fix that fits.