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

Half of the points sampled inside Mission Viejo 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.

• Mission Viejo: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 353 places measured in California0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Mission Viejo: 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 Mission Viejo is level with the California figure and shorter than the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera27% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera65% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Mission Viejo: 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 750 feet

Within 200 feet of another

28 of 50 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Mission Viejo to the nearest other one in Mission Viejo. Half of the gaps are shorter than 150 feet, and the middle half run from 100 feet to 750 feet. In Mission Viejo, 28 of 50 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 96% of the cameras here (48 of 50 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is southwest, with 11 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 2 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, Mission Viejo has 5.3 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 93,653 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 Mission Viejo, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Laguna Hills, CA2.8 miles southwest, 49 mapped cameras
• Rancho Santa Margarita, CA3.6 miles northeast, 31 mapped camerasShow Rancho Santa Margarita on the map
• Lake Forest, CA3.6 miles north, 79 mapped cameras
• Coto de Caza, CA4.1 miles east, 7 mapped camerasShow Coto de Caza on the map
• Laguna Woods, CA4.3 miles west, 10 mapped camerasShow Laguna Woods on the map
• Aliso Viejo, CA4.7 miles southwest, 7 mapped camerasShow Aliso Viejo on the map
• Laguna Niguel, CA6.4 miles southwest, 25 mapped camerasShow Laguna Niguel on the map
• San Juan Capistrano, CA7.5 miles south, 28 mapped camerasShow San Juan Capistrano on the map
• Irvine, CA8.3 miles northwest, 211 mapped cameras
• San Clemente, CA11.3 miles south, 60 mapped cameras
• Newport Beach, CA12.2 miles west, 85 mapped cameras
• Tustin, CA12.3 miles northwest, 102 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Mission Viejo come from 4,685 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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