NoiseLevelCheck

Sheridan, IL Noise Levels

Is Sheridan, IL noisy?

Sheridan, IL sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. This describes Sheridan 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 Sheridan ranks

Sheridan is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. By population, it ranks 7,008 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 2,413 people.

Your street may differ from Sheridan's reading

This page describes Sheridan as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.

See BTS's official National Transportation Noise Map

Behind Sheridan's reading

The methodology guide shows exactly how Sheridan's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Sheridan isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.