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

Half of the points sampled inside El Cajon 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 0.6 miles of one.

• El Cajon: typical distance0.3 miles
• Median of the 353 places measured in California0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• El Cajon: nine points in ten are within0.6 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 El Cajon is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera42% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera80% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of El Cajon: 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

150 feet

Middle half of the gaps

50 feet to 500 feet

Within 200 feet of another

47 of 88 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in El Cajon to the nearest other one in El Cajon. Half of the gaps are shorter than 150 feet, and the middle half run from 50 feet to 500 feet. In El Cajon, 47 of 88 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 (76 of 88 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 16 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 10 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, El Cajon has 8.3 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 106,215 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 El Cajon, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Bostonia, CA2 miles northeast, 2 mapped camerasShow Bostonia on the map
• Casa de Oro-Mount Helix, CA2.6 miles south, 2 mapped camerasShow Casa de Oro-Mount Helix on the map
• Winter Gardens, CA3.2 miles northeast, 1 mapped cameraShow Winter Gardens on the map
• Rancho San Diego, CA3.6 miles southeast, 1 mapped cameraShow Rancho San Diego on the map
• Santee, CA4 miles north, 12 mapped camerasShow Santee on the map
• La Mesa, CA4.1 miles southwest, 20 mapped camerasShow La Mesa on the map
• Lakeside, CA5 miles northeast, 3 mapped camerasShow Lakeside on the map
• Lemon Grove, CA6.4 miles southwest, 2 mapped camerasShow Lemon Grove on the map
• San Diego, CA9.6 miles west, 733 mapped cameras
• National City, CA12.4 miles southwest, 73 mapped cameras
• Chula Vista, CA12.4 miles south, 151 mapped cameras
• Encinitas, CA24.4 miles northwest, 43 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for El Cajon come from 3,771 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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