NoiseLevelCheck

Montrose, IA Noise Levels

Montrose, IA: what the federal noise map shows

Quiet
<45dB(A)

At Montrose, IA, road, rail and aircraft noise all fall below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's national map can distinguish from silence.

This describes Montrose as a whole, not a specific block, the underlying BTS map resolves to about 38 meters per pixel, sampled at the town's own center point.

Where Montrose ranks

There's no loudness rank for Montrose: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. By population, it ranks 11,604 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 734 people.

Your street may differ from Montrose's reading

For a single house or lot in Montrose rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.

See BTS's official National Transportation Noise Map

More on how this number was built

For exactly which federal dataset feeds Montrose's figure, see the methodology guide. The guide to reading a quiet result explains what "no measurable noise" actually means at Montrose.