Plain Dealing, LA Noise Levels
How loud is Plain Dealing, LA?
At 47.5 dB(A), Plain Dealing, LA falls inside HUD's "Acceptable" noise zone, 65 dB(A) day-night average or below under 24 CFR 51.104, the federal government's own line for building housing with no extra sound attenuation required. Plain Dealing's reading comes from a single sampled point, not a block-by-block sweep, so a specific address here could genuinely differ.
Where Plain Dealing's noise comes from
BTS models these three sources separately before combining them, so a place can be quiet on two and loud on the third.
How Plain Dealing compares nationally
Plain Dealing ranks 3,444 of 3,622 measured places nationally, 1 being the loudest this dataset covers. Population is about 876, 10,845th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Checking one address in Plain Dealing
Nothing here substitutes for checking one address in Plain Dealing directly, and BTS's own map lets anyone do that at no cost.
Plain Dealing's number isn't a one-off calculation, it comes from the same method covered in the methodology guide. See the why New York City shows up quiet here too for why a real place can show no reading at all.