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

Half of the points sampled inside Pekin 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.

• Pekin: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 179 places measured in Illinois0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Pekin: 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 Pekin is level with the Illinois figure and shorter than the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera21% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera58% of the area

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

300 feet

Middle half of the gaps

100 feet to 650 feet

Within 200 feet of another

19 of 41 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Pekin to the nearest other one in Pekin. Half of the gaps are shorter than 300 feet, and the middle half run from 100 feet to 650 feet. In Pekin, 19 of 41 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 98% of the cameras here (40 of 41 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is west, with 12 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 1 camera here.

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

For every 10,000 residents, Pekin has 12.9 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 31,731 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 Pekin, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Bartonville, IL5.3 miles north, 4 mapped camerasShow Bartonville on the map
• Creve Coeur, IL5.4 miles north, 3 mapped camerasShow Creve Coeur on the map
• Tremont, IL7.8 miles east, 12 mapped camerasShow Tremont on the map
• East Peoria, IL8.5 miles northeast, 27 mapped camerasShow East Peoria on the map
• West Peoria, IL9 miles north, 1 mapped cameraShow West Peoria on the map
• Morton, IL9.1 miles east, 18 mapped camerasShow Morton on the map
• Glasford, IL9.7 miles west, 2 mapped camerasShow Glasford on the map
• Peoria Heights, IL12.7 miles north, 5 mapped camerasShow Peoria Heights on the map

The distance and area figures for Pekin come from 4,361 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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