Sheffield, IL Noise Levels
Is Sheffield, IL noisy?
Sheffield, IL 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 Sheffield, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Sheffield ranks
Sheffield, IL sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. By population, it ranks 11,243 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 798 people.
Your street may differ from Sheffield's reading
This page describes Sheffield as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Sheffield's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Sheffield's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Sheffield isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.