University Heights, IA Noise Levels
University Heights, IA: what the federal noise map shows
At University Heights, IA, road, rail and aircraft noise all fall below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's national map can distinguish from silence. That figure is sampled at one coordinate, the Census Bureau's own internal point for University Heights, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where University Heights ranks
There's no loudness rank for University Heights: it's one of 8,515 places nationally where BTS's model measures nothing above its 45 dB(A) floor. Population is about 1,188, 9,628th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from University Heights's reading
For a single house or lot in University Heights rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.
More on how this number was built
For exactly which federal dataset feeds University Heights's figure, see the methodology guide. The guide to reading a quiet result explains what "no measurable noise" actually means at University Heights.