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

Half of the points sampled inside Indianapolis 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 1.3 miles of one.

• Indianapolis: typical distance0.5 miles
• Median of the 61 places measured in Indiana0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Indianapolis: nine points in ten are within1.3 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 Indianapolis is shorter than the Indiana figure and level with the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera17% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera44% of the area

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

176 of 595 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Indianapolis to the nearest other one in Indianapolis. Half of the gaps are shorter than 400 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 0.2 miles. In Indianapolis, 176 of 595 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 (566 of 595 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is east, with 88 cameras. Because 7 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 573 directions from 566 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 23 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, Indianapolis has 6.7 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 887,642 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 Indianapolis, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Beech Grove, IN5.3 miles southeast, 16 mapped camerasShow Beech Grove on the map
• Speedway, IN5.5 miles west, 11 mapped camerasShow Speedway on the map
• Homecroft, IN7.5 miles south, 1 mapped cameraShow Homecroft on the map
• Southport, IN8.2 miles south, 2 mapped camerasShow Southport on the map
• Williams Creek, IN8.5 miles north, 1 mapped cameraShow Williams Creek on the map
• Lawrence, IN10.4 miles northeast, 42 mapped cameras
• Cumberland, IN10.8 miles east, 11 mapped camerasShow Cumberland on the map
• Greenwood, IN12.2 miles south, 68 mapped camerasShow Greenwood on the map
• Carmel, IN13 miles north, 111 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Indianapolis come from 23,803 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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