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

Half of the points sampled inside Cathedral City are closer to a mapped camera than 0.5 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 1.7 miles of one.

• Cathedral City: typical distance0.5 miles
• Median of the 353 places measured in California0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Cathedral City: nine points in ten are within1.7 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 Cathedral City is longer than the California figure and level with the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera25% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera53% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Cathedral City: 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

0.3 miles

Middle half of the gaps

450 feet to 0.5 miles

Within 200 feet of another

10 of 41 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Cathedral City to the nearest other one in Cathedral City. Half of the gaps are shorter than 0.3 miles, and the middle half run from 450 feet to 0.5 miles. In Cathedral City, 10 of 41 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 98% of the cameras here (40 of 41 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is southwest, with 10 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 1 camera here.

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

For every 10,000 residents, Cathedral City has 8 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 51,493 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 Cathedral City, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Palm Springs, CA4.9 miles southwest, 75 mapped camerasShow Palm Springs on the map
• Rancho Mirage, CA5.4 miles southeast, 130 mapped cameras
• Garnet, CA5.7 miles north, 8 mapped camerasShow Garnet on the map
• Desert Edge, CA6.1 miles north, 1 mapped cameraShow Desert Edge on the map
• Thousand Palms, CA6.5 miles east, 9 mapped camerasShow Thousand Palms on the map
• Palm Desert, CA8.7 miles southeast, 143 mapped cameras
• Desert Hot Springs, CA9.4 miles northwest, 23 mapped camerasShow Desert Hot Springs on the map
• Desert Palms, CA10.6 miles east, 2 mapped camerasShow Desert Palms on the map

The distance and area figures for Cathedral City come from 5,854 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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