How close is the nearest license plate camera in New Orleans, LA?

Half of the points sampled inside New Orleans are closer to a mapped camera than 3.4 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 7.6 miles of one.

• New Orleans: typical distance3.4 miles
• Median of the 26 places measured in Louisiana0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• New Orleans: nine points in ten are within7.6 miles

Across the 26 places measured in Louisiana, the median typical distance is 0.6 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in New Orleans is longer than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera4% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera10% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of New Orleans: 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

450 feet

Middle half of the gaps

100 feet to 0.2 miles

Within 200 feet of another

56 of 132 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in New Orleans to the nearest other one in New Orleans. Half of the gaps are shorter than 450 feet, and the middle half run from 100 feet to 0.2 miles. In New Orleans, 56 of 132 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 89% of the cameras here (117 of 132 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 26 cameras. Because 16 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 133 directions from 117 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, New Orleans has 3.4 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 383,997 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 New Orleans, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Arabi, LA8.8 miles southwest, 7 mapped camerasShow Arabi on the map
• Chalmette, LA8.9 miles south, 9 mapped camerasShow Chalmette on the map
• Meraux, LA9.7 miles south, 1 mapped cameraShow Meraux on the map
• Terrytown, LA13 miles southwest, 9 mapped camerasShow Terrytown on the map
• Gretna, LA13.2 miles southwest, 11 mapped camerasShow Gretna on the map
• Eden Isle, LA13.2 miles northeast, 4 mapped camerasShow Eden Isle on the map
• Timberlane, LA14.5 miles southwest, 2 mapped camerasShow Timberlane on the map
• Harvey, LA15 miles southwest, 15 mapped camerasShow Harvey on the map
• Metairie, LA15.7 miles west, 97 mapped cameras
• Kenner, LA19.9 miles west, 76 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for New Orleans come from 22,578 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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