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

Half of the points sampled inside Waukegan 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.

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

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera26% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera59% of the area

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

600 feet

Middle half of the gaps

250 feet to 0.3 miles

Within 200 feet of another

9 of 54 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Waukegan to the nearest other one in Waukegan. Half of the gaps are shorter than 600 feet, and the middle half run from 250 feet to 0.3 miles. In Waukegan, 9 of 54 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 96% of the cameras here (52 of 54 cameras).

The most common recorded directions are southeast and south, with 10 cameras each. 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, Waukegan has 6 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 89,321 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 Waukegan, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Gurnee, IL3.5 miles west, 28 mapped camerasShow Gurnee on the map
• North Chicago, IL3.7 miles south, 15 mapped camerasShow North Chicago on the map
• Beach Park, IL4.4 miles northeast, 2 mapped camerasShow Beach Park on the map
• Green Oaks, IL5.4 miles southwest, 6 mapped camerasShow Green Oaks on the map
• Gages Lake, IL5.8 miles west, 2 mapped camerasShow Gages Lake on the map
• Lake Bluff, IL6.1 miles south, 3 mapped camerasShow Lake Bluff on the map
• Zion, IL6.3 miles north, 23 mapped camerasShow Zion on the map
• Old Mill Creek, IL6.9 miles northwest, 1 mapped cameraShow Old Mill Creek on the map
• Lake Forest, IL9.1 miles south, 40 mapped cameras
• South Barrington, IL24.4 miles southwest, 59 mapped cameras
• Racine, WI24.8 miles north, 49 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Waukegan come from 6,300 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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