How close is the nearest license plate camera in Atlanta, GA?

Half of the points sampled inside Atlanta are closer to a mapped camera than 0.3 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 0.9 miles of one.

• Atlanta: typical distance0.3 miles
• Median of the 120 places measured in Georgia0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Atlanta: nine points in ten are within0.9 miles

Across the 120 places measured in Georgia, the median typical distance is 0.4 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Atlanta is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera35% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera67% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Atlanta: 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

250 feet

Middle half of the gaps

50 feet to 800 feet

Within 200 feet of another

286 of 647 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Atlanta to the nearest other one in Atlanta. Half of the gaps are shorter than 250 feet, and the middle half run from 50 feet to 800 feet. In Atlanta, 286 of 647 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 88% of the cameras here (570 of 647 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 95 cameras. Because 22 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 592 directions from 570 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 41 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, Atlanta has 13 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 498,715 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 Atlanta, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Druid Hills, GA5.6 miles east, 7 mapped camerasShow Druid Hills on the map
• North Druid Hills, GA6.8 miles northeast, 19 mapped camerasShow North Druid Hills on the map
• East Point, GA7 miles southwest, 59 mapped cameras
• Hapeville, GA7.1 miles south, 18 mapped camerasShow Hapeville on the map
• Decatur, GA7.2 miles east, 35 mapped camerasShow Decatur on the map
• Vinings, GA7.3 miles north, 16 mapped camerasShow Vinings on the map
• Gresham Park, GA7.3 miles southeast, 4 mapped camerasShow Gresham Park on the map
• North Decatur, GA8.2 miles east, 25 mapped camerasShow North Decatur on the map
• Smyrna, GA8.7 miles northwest, 87 mapped cameras
• College Park, GA9.1 miles south, 46 mapped cameras
• Brookhaven, GA9.1 miles northeast, 170 mapped cameras
• Mableton, GA9.4 miles west, 89 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Atlanta come from 8,854 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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