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

Half of the points sampled inside Rancho Mirage 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 1.7 miles of one.

• Rancho Mirage: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 353 places measured in California0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Rancho Mirage: nine points in ten are within1.7 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 Rancho Mirage is level with the California figure and shorter than the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera29% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera62% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Rancho Mirage: 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

250 feet

Middle half of the gaps

150 feet to 550 feet

Within 200 feet of another

57 of 130 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Rancho Mirage to the nearest other one in Rancho Mirage. Half of the gaps are shorter than 250 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 550 feet. In Rancho Mirage, 57 of 130 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 (128 of 130 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 23 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, Rancho Mirage has 76.5 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 16,999 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 Rancho Mirage, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Palm Desert, CA3.8 miles southeast, 143 mapped cameras
• Cathedral City, CA5.4 miles northwest, 41 mapped cameras
• Thousand Palms, CA5.4 miles northeast, 9 mapped camerasShow Thousand Palms on the map
• Indian Wells, CA6.5 miles southeast, 18 mapped camerasShow Indian Wells on the map
• Palm Springs, CA6.9 miles west, 75 mapped camerasShow Palm Springs on the map
• Desert Palms, CA7.8 miles east, 2 mapped camerasShow Desert Palms on the map
• Bermuda Dunes, CA8.1 miles east, 7 mapped camerasShow Bermuda Dunes on the map
• Desert Edge, CA10.9 miles north, 1 mapped cameraShow Desert Edge on the map

The distance and area figures for Rancho Mirage come from 6,674 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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