Newton, IA Noise Levels
Is Newton, IA noisy?
Newton, IA 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 Newton's Census-defined center point, not any one street, BTS's map is a live raster, not a per-address service.
Where Newton ranks
Newton 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 2,325 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 15,709 people.
Your street may differ from Newton's reading
This page describes Newton as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Newton's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Newton's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Newton isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.