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

Half of the points sampled inside Garden Grove 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.

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

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera44% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera88% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Garden 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

150 feet

Middle half of the gaps

100 feet to 550 feet

Within 200 feet of another

63 of 100 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Garden Grove to the nearest other one in Garden Grove. Half of the gaps are shorter than 150 feet, and the middle half run from 100 feet to 550 feet. In Garden Grove, 63 of 100 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 95% of the cameras here (95 of 100 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is southwest, with 21 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, Garden Grove has 5.8 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 171,949 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 Garden Grove, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Stanton, CA2.4 miles northwest, 12 mapped camerasShow Stanton on the map
• Westminster, CA2.7 miles southwest, 29 mapped camerasShow Westminster on the map
• Anaheim, CA4.7 miles northeast, 57 mapped camerasShow Anaheim on the map
• Fountain Valley, CA4.7 miles south, 15 mapped camerasShow Fountain Valley on the map
• Cypress, CA5.2 miles northwest, 12 mapped camerasShow Cypress on the map
• Santa Ana, CA5.4 miles southeast, 37 mapped camerasShow Santa Ana on the map
• Los Alamitos, CA5.8 miles west, 17 mapped camerasShow Los Alamitos on the map
• Buena Park, CA6 miles northwest, 11 mapped camerasShow Buena Park on the map
• Costa Mesa, CA8.2 miles south, 83 mapped cameras
• Orange, CA8.3 miles east, 53 mapped cameras
• Tustin, CA9.2 miles east, 102 mapped cameras
• Lakewood, CA10.4 miles northwest, 80 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Garden Grove come from 4,659 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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