How close is the nearest license plate camera in Colorado Springs, CO?

Half of the points sampled inside Colorado Springs are closer to a mapped camera than 0.9 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 2.6 miles of one.

• Colorado Springs: typical distance0.9 miles
• Median of the 45 places measured in Colorado0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Colorado Springs: nine points in ten are within2.6 miles

Across the 45 places measured in Colorado, the median typical distance is 0.6 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Colorado Springs is longer than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera10% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera27% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Colorado Springs: 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 950 feet

Within 200 feet of another

82 of 217 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Colorado Springs to the nearest other one in Colorado Springs. Half of the gaps are shorter than 350 feet, and the middle half run from 100 feet to 950 feet. In Colorado Springs, 82 of 217 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 (195 of 217 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 32 cameras. Because 2 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 197 directions from 195 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 11 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, Colorado Springs has 4.5 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 478,961 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 Colorado Springs, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Cimarron Hills, CO3.1 miles east, 9 mapped camerasShow Cimarron Hills on the map
• Stratmoor, CO6.6 miles south, 1 mapped cameraShow Stratmoor on the map
• Security-Widefield, CO8.5 miles south, 9 mapped camerasShow Security-Widefield on the map
• Fountain, CO12.4 miles south, 31 mapped camerasShow Fountain on the map
• Gleneagle, CO12.9 miles north, 3 mapped camerasShow Gleneagle on the map
• Black Forest, CO14.1 miles north, 1 mapped cameraShow Black Forest on the map
• Cascade-Chipita Park, CO14.2 miles west, 2 mapped camerasShow Cascade-Chipita Park on the map
• Monument, CO14.7 miles north, 9 mapped camerasShow Monument on the map

The distance and area figures for Colorado Springs come from 13,083 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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