Newtown, PA Noise Levels
Is Newtown, PA noisy?
Newtown, PA sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. This describes Newtown 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 Newtown ranks
There's no loudness rank for Newtown: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. By population, it ranks 7,215 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 2,272 people.
Your street may differ from Newtown's reading
This page describes Newtown as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Newtown's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Newtown's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Newtown isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.