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

Half of the points sampled inside Elk Grove are closer to a mapped camera than 0.4 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 0.8 miles of one.

• Elk Grove: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 353 places measured in California0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Elk Grove: nine points in ten are within0.8 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 Elk Grove is level with the California figure and shorter than the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera24% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera63% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Elk Grove: 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

500 feet

Middle half of the gaps

200 feet to 0.3 miles

Within 200 feet of another

29 of 106 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Elk Grove to the nearest other one in Elk Grove. Half of the gaps are shorter than 500 feet, and the middle half run from 200 feet to 0.3 miles. In Elk Grove, 29 of 106 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 92% of the cameras here (97 of 106 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is northeast, with 20 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, Elk Grove has 6 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 176,124 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 Elk Grove, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Florin, CA4.8 miles north, 23 mapped camerasShow Florin on the map
• Vineyard, CA5.2 miles northeast, 8 mapped camerasShow Vineyard on the map
• Parkway, CA6.9 miles northwest, 13 mapped camerasShow Parkway on the map
• Freeport, CA7.2 miles northwest, 1 mapped cameraShow Freeport on the map
• Lemon Hill, CA8.1 miles northwest, 3 mapped camerasShow Lemon Hill on the map
• Fruitridge Pocket, CA9 miles northwest, 2 mapped camerasShow Fruitridge Pocket on the map
• Rosemont, CA9.3 miles north, 3 mapped camerasShow Rosemont on the map
• La Riviera, CA10.7 miles north, 4 mapped camerasShow La Riviera on the map
• Sacramento, CA11.5 miles northwest, 250 mapped cameras
• Arden-Arcade, CA12.9 miles north, 81 mapped cameras
• Citrus Heights, CA20 miles north, 73 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Elk Grove come from 11,070 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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