How close is the nearest license plate camera in Kansas City, KS?

Half of the points sampled inside Kansas City are closer to a mapped camera than 1 mile, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 2.5 miles of one.

• Kansas City: typical distance1 mile
• Median of the 26 places measured in Kansas0.5 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Kansas City: nine points in ten are within2.5 miles

Across the 26 places measured in Kansas, the median typical distance is 0.5 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Kansas City is longer than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera10% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera26% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Kansas City: 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

100 feet

Middle half of the gaps

50 feet to 400 feet

Within 200 feet of another

121 of 178 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Kansas City to the nearest other one in Kansas City. Half of the gaps are shorter than 100 feet, and the middle half run from 50 feet to 400 feet. In Kansas City, 121 of 178 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 (171 of 178 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is southeast, with 28 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 6 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, Kansas City has 11.4 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 156,607 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 Kansas City, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Edwardsville, KS5.1 miles southwest, 3 mapped camerasShow Edwardsville on the map
• Parkville, MO6.4 miles northeast, 16 mapped camerasShow Parkville on the map
• Riverside, MO6.9 miles northeast, 3 mapped camerasShow Riverside on the map
• Bonner Springs, KS7.7 miles west, 5 mapped camerasShow Bonner Springs on the map
• Merriam, KS7.7 miles south, 26 mapped camerasShow Merriam on the map
• Mission, KS8.2 miles southeast, 33 mapped camerasShow Mission on the map
• Shawnee, KS8.2 miles southwest, 71 mapped camerasShow Shawnee on the map
• Roeland Park, KS8.3 miles southeast, 12 mapped camerasShow Roeland Park on the map
• Kansas City, MO10.2 miles east, 505 mapped cameras
• Prairie Village, KS11 miles southeast, 65 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Kansas City come from 8,326 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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