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

Half of the points sampled inside Costa Mesa 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.

• Costa Mesa: typical distance0.3 miles
• Median of the 353 places measured in California0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Costa Mesa: 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 Costa Mesa is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera40% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera86% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Costa Mesa: 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

450 feet

Middle half of the gaps

200 feet to 900 feet

Within 200 feet of another

16 of 83 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Costa Mesa to the nearest other one in Costa Mesa. Half of the gaps are shorter than 450 feet, and the middle half run from 200 feet to 900 feet. In Costa Mesa, 16 of 83 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 90% of the cameras here (75 of 83 cameras).

Because 2 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 77 directions from 75 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.

For every 10,000 residents, Costa Mesa has 7.4 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 111,918 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 Costa Mesa, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Fountain Valley, CA3.7 miles northwest, 15 mapped camerasShow Fountain Valley on the map
• Newport Beach, CA4.5 miles southeast, 85 mapped cameras
• Santa Ana, CA5.2 miles north, 37 mapped camerasShow Santa Ana on the map
• Huntington Beach, CA5.5 miles west, 42 mapped camerasShow Huntington Beach on the map
• Tustin, CA7.4 miles northeast, 102 mapped cameras
• Westminster, CA7.5 miles northwest, 29 mapped camerasShow Westminster on the map
• Irvine, CA8.1 miles east, 211 mapped cameras
• Garden Grove, CA8.2 miles north, 100 mapped cameras
• Orange, CA11 miles northeast, 53 mapped cameras
• Laguna Hills, CA13.4 miles southeast, 49 mapped cameras
• Lake Forest, CA13.9 miles east, 79 mapped cameras
• Mission Viejo, CA15.4 miles east, 50 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Costa Mesa come from 4,092 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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