New Paltz, NY Noise Levels
Is New Paltz, NY noisy?
New Paltz, NY sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. This describes New Paltz 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 New Paltz ranks
New Paltz 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 3,537 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 8,646 people.
Your street may differ from New Paltz's reading
This page describes New Paltz as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind New Paltz's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how New Paltz's reading was built from BTS's tile data. New Paltz isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.