How close is the nearest license plate camera in Meridian, ID?

Half of the points sampled inside Meridian 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 1.2 miles of one.

• Meridian: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 8 places measured in Idaho0.7 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Meridian: nine points in ten are within1.2 miles

Across the 8 places measured in Idaho, the median typical distance is 0.7 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Meridian is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera29% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera72% of the area

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

0.2 miles

Middle half of the gaps

350 feet to 0.4 miles

Within 200 feet of another

12 of 90 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Meridian to the nearest other one in Meridian. Half of the gaps are shorter than 0.2 miles, and the middle half run from 350 feet to 0.4 miles. In Meridian, 12 of 90 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 100% of the cameras here (90 of 90 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is northeast, with 16 cameras. Because 2 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 92 directions from 90 cameras. A direction of exactly 0 is treated as not recorded, because that value is often left on a pin nobody set.

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

For every 10,000 residents, Meridian has 7.7 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 117,635 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 Meridian, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Star, ID8 miles northwest, 2 mapped camerasShow Star on the map
• Kuna, ID8.1 miles south, 2 mapped camerasShow Kuna on the map
• Nampa, ID8.4 miles west, 62 mapped cameras
• Boise City, ID8.4 miles east, 8 mapped camerasShow Boise City on the map
• Eagle, ID9.2 miles north, 2 mapped camerasShow Eagle on the map
• Caldwell, ID13.2 miles west, 45 mapped camerasShow Caldwell on the map
• Greenleaf, ID21.6 miles west, 1 mapped cameraShow Greenleaf on the map

The distance and area figures for Meridian come from 9,763 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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