NoiseLevelCheck

Witt, IL Noise Levels

Witt, IL: what the federal noise map shows

Witt, IL's 60-69.9 dB(A) band spans one of HUD's zone boundaries, so the honest answer is a range: somewhere between "Acceptable" (65 dB(A) or below) and "Normally Unacceptable" (65-75 dB(A)), not one clean verdict. Road traffic drives that number here, not the other two sources. That figure is sampled at one coordinate, the Census Bureau's own internal point for Witt, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.

Witt's noise, by source

65 dBRoad
57.5 dBRail
n/aAviation

Each of the three transportation modes gets its own model from BTS; the combined figure above is what they add up to.

What this means for a house here

Depending on where in that band the true value sits, it may also clear FHWA's 66 dB(A) residential impact threshold (23 CFR 772, Table 1), the trigger highway agencies use for sound-wall decisions. Upgraded windows, door seals and STC-rated glazing meaningfully cut broadband, near-continuous road noise.

Where Witt ranks

Among the 3,622 US places in this dataset with any measurable transportation noise, Witt ranks 319, loudest first. Population is about 766, 11,409th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.

Your street may differ from Witt's reading

For a single house or lot in Witt rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.

Check one address in Witt on BTS's own map

More on how this number was built

For exactly which federal dataset feeds Witt's figure, see the methodology guide. Since road traffic is what's driving this reading, the guide to what actually cuts each kind of noise covers the fix that fits.