How close is the nearest license plate camera in Chicago, IL?

Half of the points sampled inside Chicago 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 0.9 miles of one.

• Chicago: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 179 places measured in Illinois0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Chicago: nine points in ten are within0.9 miles

Across the 179 places measured in Illinois, the median typical distance is 0.4 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Chicago is level with the Illinois figure and shorter than the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera29% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera65% of the area

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

50 feet

Middle half of the gaps

50 feet to 350 feet

Within 200 feet of another

950 of 1,327 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Chicago to the nearest other one in Chicago. Half of the gaps are shorter than 50 feet, and the middle half run from 50 feet to 350 feet. In Chicago, 950 of 1,327 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 51% of the cameras here (681 of 1,327 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 166 cameras. Because 51 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 732 directions from 681 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 95 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, Chicago has 4.8 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 2,746,388 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 Chicago, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Cicero, IL3.7 miles west, 38 mapped camerasShow Cicero on the map
• Stickney, IL4.6 miles west, 16 mapped camerasShow Stickney on the map
• Forest View, IL5.2 miles southwest, 11 mapped camerasShow Forest View on the map
• Berwyn, IL5.3 miles west, 33 mapped camerasShow Berwyn on the map
• Oak Park, IL6.2 miles northwest, 5 mapped camerasShow Oak Park on the map
• Riverside, IL6.6 miles west, 4 mapped camerasShow Riverside on the map
• Forest Park, IL6.9 miles west, 6 mapped camerasShow Forest Park on the map
• Lyons, IL7 miles west, 9 mapped camerasShow Lyons on the map
• Evergreen Park, IL8.2 miles south, 46 mapped cameras
• Elmhurst, IL13.7 miles west, 43 mapped cameras
• Elk Grove Village, IL19.4 miles northwest, 62 mapped cameras
• Wheaton, IL21.7 miles west, 66 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Chicago come from 15,004 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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