How close is the nearest license plate camera in Phoenix, AZ?

Half of the points sampled inside Phoenix are closer to a mapped camera than 1.3 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 2.8 miles of one.

• Phoenix: typical distance1.3 miles
• Median of the 42 places measured in Arizona1 mile
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Phoenix: nine points in ten are within2.8 miles

Across the 42 places measured in Arizona, the median typical distance is 1 mile. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Phoenix is longer than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera4% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera13% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Phoenix: 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

400 feet

Middle half of the gaps

250 feet to 0.5 miles

Within 200 feet of another

33 of 149 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Phoenix to the nearest other one in Phoenix. Half of the gaps are shorter than 400 feet, and the middle half run from 250 feet to 0.5 miles. In Phoenix, 33 of 149 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 93% of the cameras here (138 of 149 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 26 cameras. Because 10 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 148 directions from 138 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 5 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, Phoenix has 0.9 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 1,608,139 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 Phoenix, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Glendale, AZ5 miles west, 103 mapped camerasShow Glendale on the map
• Paradise Valley, AZ7.8 miles east, 27 mapped camerasShow Paradise Valley on the map
• Sun City, AZ11.5 miles west, 5 mapped camerasShow Sun City on the map
• Youngtown, AZ12.4 miles west, 89 mapped cameras
• Tolleson, AZ12.7 miles southwest, 59 mapped cameras
• El Mirage, AZ13.7 miles west, 31 mapped camerasShow El Mirage on the map
• Scottsdale, AZ15.3 miles northeast, 117 mapped camerasShow Scottsdale on the map
• Tempe, AZ15.5 miles southeast, 97 mapped camerasShow Tempe on the map

The distance and area figures for Phoenix come from 33,632 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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