How close is the nearest license plate camera in Lexington-Fayette, KY?

Half of the points sampled inside Lexington-Fayette are closer to a mapped camera than 1.9 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 4.5 miles of one.

• Lexington-Fayette: typical distance1.9 miles
• Median of the 32 places measured in Kentucky0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Lexington-Fayette: nine points in ten are within4.5 miles

Across the 32 places measured in Kentucky, the median typical distance is 0.6 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Lexington-Fayette is longer than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera8% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera20% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Lexington-Fayette: 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

650 feet

Middle half of the gaps

300 feet to 0.3 miles

Within 200 feet of another

31 of 200 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Lexington-Fayette to the nearest other one in Lexington-Fayette. Half of the gaps are shorter than 650 feet, and the middle half run from 300 feet to 0.3 miles. In Lexington-Fayette, 31 of 200 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 (196 of 200 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 34 cameras. Because 5 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 201 directions from 196 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 2 cameras here.

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

In Lexington-Fayette, 76 of 200 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 38% of the cameras here.

• Public agency60 cameras
• Private5 cameras
• Camera company11 cameras
• Other0 cameras
• Not recorded124 cameras

The kinds are read from the operator names mappers typed. A name is counted as private only when it plainly belongs to a business, an association or another private owner; a name the rules cannot place is counted as other; and where no operator is recorded the camera is not assumed to be anybody’s. The method page sets out how a name is sorted into a kind.

For every 10,000 residents, Lexington-Fayette has 6.2 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 322,570 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 Lexington-Fayette, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Nicholasville, KY11.9 miles southwest, 14 mapped camerasShow Nicholasville on the map
• Georgetown, KY13.3 miles north, 21 mapped camerasShow Georgetown on the map
• Versailles, KY14.6 miles west, 6 mapped camerasShow Versailles on the map
• Winchester, KY14.9 miles east, 15 mapped camerasShow Winchester on the map
• Paris, KY15.1 miles northeast, 5 mapped camerasShow Paris on the map
• Wilmore, KY15.9 miles southwest, 1 mapped cameraShow Wilmore on the map
• Stamping Ground, KY19.9 miles northwest, 3 mapped camerasShow Stamping Ground on the map
• Richmond, KY22.9 miles southeast, 12 mapped camerasShow Richmond on the map

The distance and area figures for Lexington-Fayette come from 18,482 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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