Scotland, SD Noise Levels
Is Scotland, SD noisy?
Scotland, SD sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. Scotland's reading comes from a single sampled point, not a block-by-block sweep, so a specific address here could genuinely differ.
Where Scotland ranks
Scotland is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. About 786 people live there, making it the 11,301th largest place in this dataset.
Your street may differ from Scotland's reading
This page describes Scotland as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Scotland's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Scotland's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Scotland isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.