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

Half of the points sampled inside San Diego are closer to a mapped camera than 0.7 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 2.2 miles of one.

• San Diego: typical distance0.7 miles
• Median of the 353 places measured in California0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• San Diego: nine points in ten are within2.2 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 San Diego is longer than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera14% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera35% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of San Diego: 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 350 feet

Within 200 feet of another

480 of 733 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in San Diego to the nearest other one in San Diego. Half of the gaps are shorter than 100 feet, and the middle half run from 50 feet to 350 feet. In San Diego, 480 of 733 cameras stand within 200 feet (60 metres) of another, which usually means two on one pole or a group at one intersection.

In San Diego, 607 of 733 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 83% of the cameras here.

• Public agency592 cameras
• Private15 cameras
• Camera company0 cameras
• Other0 cameras
• Not recorded126 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, San Diego has 5.3 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 1,386,932 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 San Diego, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• La Mesa, CA7.3 miles southeast, 20 mapped camerasShow La Mesa on the map
• Santee, CA8.1 miles east, 12 mapped camerasShow Santee on the map
• Lemon Grove, CA8.5 miles southeast, 2 mapped camerasShow Lemon Grove on the map
• El Cajon, CA9.6 miles east, 88 mapped cameras
• Casa de Oro-Mount Helix, CA10.1 miles southeast, 2 mapped camerasShow Casa de Oro-Mount Helix on the map
• La Presa, CA10.8 miles southeast, 4 mapped camerasShow La Presa on the map
• Bostonia, CA11 miles east, 2 mapped camerasShow Bostonia on the map
• Winter Gardens, CA11.4 miles east, 1 mapped cameraShow Winter Gardens on the map
• National City, CA11.6 miles south, 73 mapped cameras
• Chula Vista, CA15.4 miles southeast, 151 mapped cameras
• Encinitas, CA17.1 miles northwest, 43 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for San Diego come from 22,067 sample points, laid 200 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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