How close is the nearest license plate camera in Cedar Rapids, IA?

Half of the points sampled inside Cedar Rapids are closer to a mapped camera than 0.8 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 2.5 miles of one.

• Cedar Rapids: typical distance0.8 miles
• Median of the 24 places measured in Iowa0.8 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Cedar Rapids: nine points in ten are within2.5 miles

Across the 24 places measured in Iowa, the median typical distance is 0.8 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Cedar Rapids is level with the Iowa figure and longer than the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera11% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera29% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Cedar Rapids: 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

450 feet

Middle half of the gaps

200 feet to 850 feet

Within 200 feet of another

25 of 79 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Cedar Rapids to the nearest other one in Cedar Rapids. Half of the gaps are shorter than 450 feet, and the middle half run from 200 feet to 850 feet. In Cedar Rapids, 25 of 79 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 95% of the cameras here (75 of 79 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is west, with 18 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 2 cameras here.

The direction is the compass bearing a mapper noted for the camera, as it stood when they looked.

In Cedar Rapids, 55 of 79 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 70% of the cameras here.

• Public agency52 cameras
• Private2 cameras
• Camera company1 camera
• Other0 cameras
• Not recorded24 cameras

The kinds are read from the operator names mappers typed. A name is counted as private only when it plainly belongs to a business, an association or another private owner; a name the rules cannot place is counted as other; and where no operator is recorded the camera is not assumed to be anybody’s. The method page sets out how a name is sorted into a kind.

For every 10,000 residents, Cedar Rapids has 5.7 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 137,710 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 Cedar Rapids, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Hiawatha, IA6.2 miles north, 1 mapped cameraShow Hiawatha on the map
• North Liberty, IA15.7 miles south, 9 mapped camerasShow North Liberty on the map
• Tiffin, IA17.9 miles south, 4 mapped camerasShow Tiffin on the map
• Coralville, IA18.9 miles south, 11 mapped camerasShow Coralville on the map
• Mechanicsville, IA22.3 miles east, 1 mapped cameraShow Mechanicsville on the map
• Iowa City, IA22.7 miles south, 29 mapped camerasShow Iowa City on the map

The distance and area figures for Cedar Rapids come from 4,943 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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