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

Half of the points sampled inside Turlock 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.

• Turlock: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 353 places measured in California0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Turlock: 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 Turlock is level with the California figure and shorter than the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera24% 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 Turlock: 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 200 feet

Within 200 feet of another

51 of 72 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Turlock to the nearest other one in Turlock. Half of the gaps are shorter than 100 feet, and the middle half run from 50 feet to 200 feet. In Turlock, 51 of 72 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 90% of the cameras here (65 of 72 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is southeast, with 11 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 6 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, Turlock has 9.9 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 72,740 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 Turlock, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Denair, CA3.7 miles northeast, 5 mapped camerasShow Denair on the map
• Delhi, CA6.9 miles southeast, 2 mapped camerasShow Delhi on the map
• Ceres, CA8.4 miles northwest, 7 mapped camerasShow Ceres on the map
• Livingston, CA11 miles southeast, 9 mapped camerasShow Livingston on the map
• Modesto, CA12.9 miles northwest, 121 mapped camerasShow Modesto on the map
• Winton, CA15.6 miles southeast, 1 mapped cameraShow Winton on the map
• Newman, CA15.8 miles southwest, 4 mapped camerasShow Newman on the map
• Riverbank, CA16 miles north, 8 mapped camerasShow Riverbank on the map

The distance and area figures for Turlock come from 4,352 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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