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

Half of the points sampled inside Pasadena 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 1.1 miles of one.

• Pasadena: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 353 places measured in California0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Pasadena: nine points in ten are within1.1 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 Pasadena is level with the California figure and shorter than the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera22% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera56% of the area

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

100 feet

Middle half of the gaps

50 feet to 250 feet

Within 200 feet of another

55 of 81 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Pasadena to the nearest other one in Pasadena. Half of the gaps are shorter than 100 feet, and the middle half run from 50 feet to 250 feet. In Pasadena, 55 of 81 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 99% of the cameras here (80 of 81 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is north, with 13 cameras. Because 1 camera carries two directions and is counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 81 directions from 80 cameras. A direction of exactly 0 is treated as not recorded, because that value is often left on a pin nobody set.

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

In Pasadena, 74 of 81 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 91% of the cameras here.

• Public agency73 cameras
• Private0 cameras
• Camera company0 cameras
• Other1 camera
• Not recorded7 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, Pasadena has 5.8 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 138,699 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 Pasadena, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Altadena, CA2.3 miles north, 67 mapped cameras
• San Marino, CA3 miles southeast, 42 mapped cameras
• South Pasadena, CA3.6 miles south, 20 mapped camerasShow South Pasadena on the map
• East Pasadena, CA3.8 miles southeast, 3 mapped camerasShow East Pasadena on the map
• East San Gabriel, CA4.4 miles southeast, 1 mapped cameraShow East San Gabriel on the map
• La Cañada Flintridge, CA4.9 miles northwest, 72 mapped cameras
• San Gabriel, CA5 miles southeast, 22 mapped camerasShow San Gabriel on the map
• Alhambra, CA5.2 miles south, 57 mapped cameras
• Arcadia, CA6.1 miles east, 46 mapped cameras
• Glendale, CA6.4 miles west, 87 mapped cameras
• El Monte, CA8.6 miles southeast, 42 mapped cameras
• Burbank, CA10.7 miles west, 68 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Pasadena come from 5,958 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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