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

Half of the points sampled inside Compton are closer to a mapped camera than 0.3 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 0.5 miles of one.

• Compton: typical distance0.3 miles
• Median of the 353 places measured in California0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Compton: nine points in ten are within0.5 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 Compton is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera41% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera90% of the area

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

50 feet

Middle half of the gaps

50 feet to 100 feet

Within 200 feet of another

56 of 69 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Compton to the nearest other one in Compton. Half of the gaps are shorter than 50 feet, and the middle half run from 50 feet to 100 feet. In Compton, 56 of 69 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 84% of the cameras here (58 of 69 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is east, with 17 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 8 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, Compton has 7.2 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 95,740 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 Compton, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Lynwood, CA2.5 miles northeast, 8 mapped camerasShow Lynwood on the map
• West Rancho Dominguez, CA2.6 miles west, 1 mapped cameraShow West Rancho Dominguez on the map
• Paramount, CA3.5 miles east, 22 mapped camerasShow Paramount on the map
• South Gate, CA4 miles northeast, 15 mapped camerasShow South Gate on the map
• Carson, CA4.2 miles southwest, 40 mapped camerasShow Carson on the map
• Gardena, CA4.7 miles west, 10 mapped camerasShow Gardena on the map
• Florence-Graham, CA5.3 miles north, 1 mapped cameraShow Florence-Graham on the map
• Cudahy, CA5.4 miles northeast, 1 mapped cameraShow Cudahy on the map
• Lakewood, CA6.7 miles southeast, 80 mapped cameras
• Santa Fe Springs, CA9.7 miles east, 49 mapped cameras
• Rancho Palos Verdes, CA12.4 miles southwest, 52 mapped cameras
• Culver City, CA12.5 miles northwest, 83 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Compton come from 2,640 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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