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

Half of the points sampled inside Newport Beach 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.

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

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera32% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera69% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Newport Beach: 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

400 feet

Middle half of the gaps

150 feet to 0.2 miles

Within 200 feet of another

37 of 85 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Newport Beach to the nearest other one in Newport Beach. Half of the gaps are shorter than 400 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 0.2 miles. In Newport Beach, 37 of 85 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 (81 of 85 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is northeast, with 16 cameras. Because 7 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 88 directions from 81 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.

In Newport Beach, 40 of 85 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 47% of the cameras here.

• Public agency35 cameras
• Private0 cameras
• Camera company5 cameras
• Other0 cameras
• Not recorded45 cameras

The kinds are read from the operator names mappers typed. A name is counted as private only when it plainly belongs to a business, an association or another private owner; a name the rules cannot place is counted as other; and where no operator is recorded the camera is not assumed to be anybody’s. The method page sets out how a name is sorted into a kind.

For every 10,000 residents, Newport Beach has 10 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 85,239 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 Newport Beach, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Costa Mesa, CA4.5 miles northwest, 83 mapped cameras
• Irvine, CA6.8 miles northeast, 211 mapped cameras
• Laguna Beach, CA7.7 miles southeast, 10 mapped camerasShow Laguna Beach on the map
• Laguna Woods, CA7.9 miles east, 10 mapped camerasShow Laguna Woods on the map
• Fountain Valley, CA8.2 miles northwest, 15 mapped camerasShow Fountain Valley on the map
• Aliso Viejo, CA8.3 miles east, 7 mapped camerasShow Aliso Viejo on the map
• Santa Ana, CA8.4 miles north, 37 mapped camerasShow Santa Ana on the map
• Tustin, CA8.6 miles north, 102 mapped cameras
• Laguna Hills, CA9.8 miles east, 49 mapped cameras
• Lake Forest, CA11.7 miles east, 79 mapped cameras
• Mission Viejo, CA12.2 miles east, 50 mapped cameras
• Garden Grove, CA12.5 miles northwest, 100 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Newport Beach come from 6,677 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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