Payette, ID Noise Levels

Is Payette, ID noisy?

Payette, ID sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. That figure is sampled at one coordinate, the Census Bureau's own internal point for Payette, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.

Where Payette ranks

Payette, ID sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. Population is about 8,754, 3,506th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.

Your street may differ from Payette's reading

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

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Behind Payette's reading

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