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

Half of the points sampled inside Lake Forest 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 0.7 miles of one.

• Lake Forest: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 179 places measured in Illinois0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Lake Forest: nine points in ten are within0.7 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 Lake Forest is level with the Illinois figure and shorter than the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera24% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera64% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Lake Forest: 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

400 feet

Middle half of the gaps

150 feet to 0.3 miles

Within 200 feet of another

12 of 40 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Lake Forest to the nearest other one in Lake Forest. Half of the gaps are shorter than 400 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 0.3 miles. In Lake Forest, 12 of 40 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 (38 of 40 cameras).

Because 1 camera carries two directions and is counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 39 directions from 38 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.

For every 10,000 residents, Lake Forest has 20.7 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 19,367 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 Lake Forest, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Mettawa, IL3.1 miles west, 1 mapped cameraShow Mettawa on the map
• Lake Bluff, IL3.1 miles north, 3 mapped camerasShow Lake Bluff on the map
• Bannockburn, IL3.1 miles south, 1 mapped cameraShow Bannockburn on the map
• Highwood, IL3.3 miles southeast, 5 mapped camerasShow Highwood on the map
• Lincolnshire, IL4.2 miles southwest, 15 mapped camerasShow Lincolnshire on the map
• Highland Park, IL4.6 miles southeast, 28 mapped camerasShow Highland Park on the map
• Riverwoods, IL4.9 miles south, 4 mapped camerasShow Riverwoods on the map
• Green Oaks, IL5 miles northwest, 6 mapped camerasShow Green Oaks on the map
• Waukegan, IL9.1 miles north, 54 mapped cameras
• Elk Grove Village, IL17.4 miles southwest, 62 mapped cameras
• Schaumburg, IL18.4 miles southwest, 59 mapped cameras
• South Barrington, IL18.4 miles southwest, 59 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Lake Forest come from 4,457 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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