NoiseLevelCheck

Osage, IA Noise Levels

Is Osage, IA noisy?

Osage, IA sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. This describes Osage 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 Osage ranks

There's no loudness rank for Osage: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. By population, it ranks 5,823 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 3,559 people.

Your street may differ from Osage's reading

This page describes Osage as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.

See BTS's official National Transportation Noise Map

Behind Osage's reading

The methodology guide shows exactly how Osage's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Osage isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.