Manhattan, IL Noise Levels
Is Manhattan, IL noisy?
Manhattan, IL sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. Manhattan's reading comes from a single sampled point, not a block-by-block sweep, so a specific address here could genuinely differ.
Where Manhattan ranks
Manhattan is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. About 10,772 people live there, making it the 3,034th largest place in this dataset.
Your street may differ from Manhattan's reading
This page describes Manhattan as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Manhattan's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Manhattan's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Manhattan isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.