Prior Lake, MN Noise Levels
Is Prior Lake, MN noisy?
Prior Lake, MN sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. This describes Prior Lake 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 Prior Lake ranks
There's no loudness rank for Prior Lake: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. About 28,018 people live there, making it the 1,429th largest place in this dataset.
Your street may differ from Prior Lake's reading
This page describes Prior Lake as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Prior Lake's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Prior Lake's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Prior Lake isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.