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

Half of the points sampled inside San Jose are closer to a mapped camera than 0.5 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 2.4 miles of one.

• San Jose: typical distance0.5 miles
• Median of the 353 places measured in California0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• San Jose: nine points in ten are within2.4 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 Jose is longer than the California figure and level with the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera23% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera52% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of San Jose: 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

300 feet

Middle half of the gaps

150 feet to 550 feet

Within 200 feet of another

190 of 587 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in San Jose to the nearest other one in San Jose. Half of the gaps are shorter than 300 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 550 feet. In San Jose, 190 of 587 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 94% of the cameras here (554 of 587 cameras).

The most common recorded directions are southeast and northwest, with 94 cameras each. Because 4 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 558 directions from 554 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 23 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, San Jose has 5.8 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 1,013,240 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 Jose, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Alum Rock, CA4.9 miles north, 2 mapped camerasShow Alum Rock on the map
• Burbank, CA7.4 miles west, 2 mapped camerasShow Burbank on the map
• Campbell, CA8.6 miles west, 25 mapped camerasShow Campbell on the map
• Los Gatos, CA9.9 miles southwest, 46 mapped cameras
• Santa Clara, CA10.3 miles northwest, 81 mapped cameras
• Milpitas, CA10.5 miles northwest, 49 mapped cameras
• Monte Sereno, CA11.2 miles west, 11 mapped camerasShow Monte Sereno on the map
• Saratoga, CA12.7 miles west, 123 mapped cameras
• Morgan Hill, CA14.5 miles southeast, 53 mapped cameras
• Atherton, CA24.6 miles northwest, 54 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for San Jose come from 11,692 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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