Plains, TX Noise Levels
Is Plains, TX noisy?
Plains, TX 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 Plains, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Plains ranks
Plains is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. About 1,358 people live there, making it the 9,118th largest place in this dataset.
Your street may differ from Plains's reading
This page describes Plains as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Plains's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Plains's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Plains isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.