How close is the nearest license plate camera in Huntsville, AL?

Half of the points sampled inside Huntsville are closer to a mapped camera than 1.4 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 3.3 miles of one.

• Huntsville: typical distance1.4 miles
• Median of the 53 places measured in Alabama0.8 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Huntsville: nine points in ten are within3.3 miles

Across the 53 places measured in Alabama, the median typical distance is 0.8 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Huntsville is longer than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera6% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera17% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Huntsville: the part that lies within 400 metres (about a quarter mile) and within 800 metres (about half a mile) of a mapped camera, wherever that camera stands. They describe distance to a pin and nothing else. In the median place measured nationwide, 46% of the area inside the boundary lies within half a mile of a mapped camera.

Median gap

300 feet

Middle half of the gaps

150 feet to 750 feet

Within 200 feet of another

51 of 140 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Huntsville to the nearest other one in Huntsville. Half of the gaps are shorter than 300 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 750 feet. In Huntsville, 51 of 140 cameras stand within 200 feet (60 metres) of another, which usually means two on one pole or a group at one intersection.

A direction is recorded for 81% of the cameras here (113 of 140 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 18 cameras. Because 1 camera carries two directions and is counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 114 directions from 113 cameras. A direction of exactly 0 is treated as not recorded, because that value is often left on a pin nobody set; that leaves out 9 cameras here.

The direction is the compass bearing a mapper noted for the camera, as it stood when they looked.

For every 10,000 residents, Huntsville has 6.5 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 215,006 residents there. Among the places measured nationwide, the median is 8.1 mapped cameras for every 10,000 residents.

Other places with a mapped camera within 25 miles of Huntsville, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Redstone Arsenal, AL5.1 miles southwest, 2 mapped camerasShow Redstone Arsenal on the map
• Owens Cross Roads, AL10.4 miles southeast, 2 mapped camerasShow Owens Cross Roads on the map
• Moores Mill, AL10.8 miles north, 1 mapped cameraShow Moores Mill on the map
• Madison, AL10.9 miles west, 13 mapped camerasShow Madison on the map
• Meridianville, AL12.1 miles north, 2 mapped camerasShow Meridianville on the map
• Hazel Green, AL15.6 miles north, 3 mapped camerasShow Hazel Green on the map
• New Market, AL15.7 miles northeast, 3 mapped camerasShow New Market on the map
• Priceville, AL21.2 miles southwest, 1 mapped cameraShow Priceville on the map

The distance and area figures for Huntsville come from 14,738 sample points, laid 200 metres apart across the area inside its boundary.

Each distance is a straight line from a sample point to the nearest mapped camera of any make, and that camera can stand outside the boundary. The counts are floors: a camera nobody has added to OpenStreetMap is not on this page, and a pin can be out of date.

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