Newton, MA Noise Levels
Is Newton, MA noisy?
Newton, MA sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. Newton's reading comes from a single sampled point, not a block-by-block sweep, so a specific address here could genuinely differ.
Where Newton ranks
Newton, MA sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. By population, it ranks 391 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 90,700 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.