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

Half of the points sampled inside Milpitas 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 0.9 miles of one.

• Milpitas: typical distance0.3 miles
• Median of the 353 places measured in California0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Milpitas: nine points in ten are within0.9 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 Milpitas is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera40% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera76% of the area

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

850 feet

Middle half of the gaps

350 feet to 0.3 miles

Within 200 feet of another

8 of 49 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Milpitas to the nearest other one in Milpitas. Half of the gaps are shorter than 850 feet, and the middle half run from 350 feet to 0.3 miles. In Milpitas, 8 of 49 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 98% of the cameras here (48 of 49 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is northwest, with 14 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 1 camera here.

The direction is the compass bearing a mapper noted for the camera, as it stood when they looked.

For every 10,000 residents, Milpitas has 6.1 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 80,273 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 Milpitas, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Alum Rock, CA5.8 miles southeast, 2 mapped camerasShow Alum Rock on the map
• Santa Clara, CA6.4 miles southwest, 81 mapped cameras
• Sunnyvale, CA8.2 miles southwest, 41 mapped camerasShow Sunnyvale on the map
• Burbank, CA8.2 miles south, 2 mapped camerasShow Burbank on the map
• Fremont, CA8.4 miles northwest, 103 mapped camerasShow Fremont on the map
• Newark, CA9.7 miles northwest, 28 mapped camerasShow Newark on the map
• San Jose, CA10.5 miles southeast, 587 mapped cameras
• Mountain View, CA10.6 miles west, 13 mapped camerasShow Mountain View on the map
• Saratoga, CA13.6 miles southwest, 123 mapped cameras
• Los Gatos, CA14.5 miles south, 46 mapped cameras
• Pleasanton, CA16.1 miles north, 79 mapped cameras
• Atherton, CA17.2 miles west, 54 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Milpitas come from 3,502 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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