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

Half of the points sampled inside Santa Monica are closer to a mapped camera than 1,000 feet, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 0.4 miles of one.

• Santa Monica: typical distance1,000 feet
• Median of the 353 places measured in California0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Santa Monica: nine points in ten are within0.4 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 Santa Monica is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera68% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera98% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Santa Monica: 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

350 feet

Middle half of the gaps

100 feet to 750 feet

Within 200 feet of another

33 of 84 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Santa Monica to the nearest other one in Santa Monica. Half of the gaps are shorter than 350 feet, and the middle half run from 100 feet to 750 feet. In Santa Monica, 33 of 84 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 85% of the cameras here (71 of 84 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is southwest, with 14 cameras. Because 2 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 73 directions from 71 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 3 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, Santa Monica has 9 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 93,076 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 Santa Monica, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Culver City, CA5 miles east, 83 mapped cameras
• Beverly Hills, CA5.9 miles northeast, 184 mapped cameras
• Ladera Heights, CA6.4 miles east, 2 mapped camerasShow Ladera Heights on the map
• Los Angeles, CA7.5 miles northeast, 495 mapped camerasShow Los Angeles on the map
• West Hollywood, CA7.7 miles northeast, 56 mapped cameras
• View Park-Windsor Hills, CA7.8 miles east, 1 mapped cameraShow View Park-Windsor Hills on the map
• El Segundo, CA8.6 miles southeast, 27 mapped camerasShow El Segundo on the map
• Topanga, CA8.7 miles northwest, 5 mapped camerasShow Topanga on the map
• Burbank, CA14.5 miles northeast, 68 mapped cameras
• Compton, CA17.2 miles southeast, 69 mapped cameras
• Glendale, CA17.3 miles northeast, 87 mapped cameras
• Rancho Palos Verdes, CA19.7 miles south, 52 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Santa Monica come from 2,121 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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