How close is the nearest license plate camera in Berkeley, CA?

Half of the points sampled inside Berkeley are closer to a mapped camera than 0.2 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 0.4 miles of one.

• Berkeley: typical distance0.2 miles
• Median of the 353 places measured in California0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Berkeley: nine points in ten are within0.4 miles

Across the 353 places measured in California, the median typical distance is 0.4 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Berkeley is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera56% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera93% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Berkeley: 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 650 feet

Within 200 feet of another

30 of 81 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Berkeley to the nearest other one in Berkeley. Half of the gaps are shorter than 300 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 650 feet. In Berkeley, 30 of 81 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 86% of the cameras here (70 of 81 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is northwest, with 12 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 3 cameras here.

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

In Berkeley, 47 of 81 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 58% of the cameras here.

• Public agency46 cameras
• Private0 cameras
• Camera company0 cameras
• Other1 camera
• Not recorded34 cameras

The kinds are read from the operator names mappers typed. A name is counted as private only when it plainly belongs to a business, an association or another private owner; a name the rules cannot place is counted as other; and where no operator is recorded the camera is not assumed to be anybody’s. The method page sets out how a name is sorted into a kind.

For every 10,000 residents, Berkeley has 6.5 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 124,321 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 Berkeley, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Albany, CA1.9 miles northwest, 32 mapped camerasShow Albany on the map
• Kensington, CA2.5 miles north, 6 mapped camerasShow Kensington on the map
• Emeryville, CA2.5 miles south, 35 mapped camerasShow Emeryville on the map
• Piedmont, CA4.2 miles southeast, 39 mapped camerasShow Piedmont on the map
• Orinda, CA5.3 miles east, 27 mapped camerasShow Orinda on the map
• Richmond, CA6.3 miles northwest, 80 mapped cameras
• Oakland, CA6.5 miles southeast, 536 mapped cameras
• San Pablo, CA7.2 miles northwest, 4 mapped camerasShow San Pablo on the map
• Alameda, CA7.3 miles south, 57 mapped cameras
• San Francisco, CA12.2 miles southwest, 489 mapped cameras
• San Leandro, CA13 miles southeast, 97 mapped cameras
• Benicia, CA15.4 miles northeast, 52 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Berkeley come from 2,785 sample points, laid 100 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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