Piedmont, SD Noise Levels
Is Piedmont, SD noisy?
Piedmont, SD 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 Piedmont, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Piedmont ranks
Piedmont 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 10,244 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 1,002 people.
Your street may differ from Piedmont's reading
This page describes Piedmont as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Piedmont's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Piedmont's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Piedmont isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.