How close is the nearest license plate camera in Carmel, IN?

Half of the points sampled inside Carmel are closer to a mapped camera than 0.5 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 0.9 miles of one.

• Carmel: typical distance0.5 miles
• Median of the 61 places measured in Indiana0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Carmel: nine points in ten are within0.9 miles

Across the 61 places measured in Indiana, the median typical distance is 0.6 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Carmel is shorter than the Indiana figure and level with the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera21% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera55% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Carmel: 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 0.2 miles

Within 200 feet of another

39 of 111 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Carmel to the nearest other one in Carmel. Half of the gaps are shorter than 400 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 0.2 miles. In Carmel, 39 of 111 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 (105 of 111 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 26 cameras. Because 2 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 107 directions from 105 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 5 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, Carmel has 11.1 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 99,757 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 Carmel, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Williams Creek, IN4.5 miles south, 1 mapped cameraShow Williams Creek on the map
• Westfield, IN5.1 miles north, 24 mapped camerasShow Westfield on the map
• Fishers, IN6.8 miles east, 49 mapped camerasShow Fishers on the map
• Zionsville, IN8.1 miles west, 26 mapped camerasShow Zionsville on the map
• Noblesville, IN8.9 miles northeast, 46 mapped camerasShow Noblesville on the map
• Lawrence, IN10.7 miles southeast, 42 mapped cameras
• Whitestown, IN11.5 miles west, 14 mapped camerasShow Whitestown on the map
• Cicero, IN12.8 miles northeast, 1 mapped cameraShow Cicero on the map
• Indianapolis, IN13 miles south, 595 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Carmel come from 12,972 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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