How close is the nearest license plate camera in Prairie Village, KS?

Half of the points sampled inside Prairie Village are closer to a mapped camera than 0.2 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 0.4 miles of one.

• Prairie Village: typical distance0.2 miles
• Median of the 26 places measured in Kansas0.5 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Prairie Village: nine points in ten are within0.4 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 Prairie Village is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera59% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera99% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Prairie Village: 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

50 feet

Middle half of the gaps

50 feet to 100 feet

Within 200 feet of another

54 of 65 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Prairie Village to the nearest other one in Prairie Village. Half of the gaps are shorter than 50 feet, and the middle half run from 50 feet to 100 feet. In Prairie Village, 54 of 65 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 (64 of 65 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is northeast, with 11 cameras. Because 3 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 67 directions from 64 cameras. A direction of exactly 0 is treated as not recorded, because that value is often left on a pin nobody set.

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

For every 10,000 residents, Prairie Village has 28.3 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 22,957 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 Prairie Village, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Mission Hills, KS2.1 miles northeast, 11 mapped camerasShow Mission Hills on the map
• Fairway, KS2.6 miles north, 8 mapped camerasShow Fairway on the map
• Mission, KS3 miles north, 33 mapped camerasShow Mission on the map
• Roeland Park, KS3.3 miles north, 12 mapped camerasShow Roeland Park on the map
• Merriam, KS3.7 miles northwest, 26 mapped camerasShow Merriam on the map
• Westwood, KS3.8 miles north, 1 mapped cameraShow Westwood on the map
• Leawood, KS5.5 miles south, 25 mapped camerasShow Leawood on the map
• Overland Park, KS7.3 miles southwest, 75 mapped camerasShow Overland Park on the map
• Kansas City, MO10.6 miles northeast, 505 mapped cameras
• Kansas City, KS11 miles northwest, 178 mapped cameras
• Blue Springs, MO19.6 miles east, 74 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Prairie Village come from 1,660 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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