How close is the nearest license plate camera in Quincy, MA?

Half of the points sampled inside Quincy are closer to a mapped camera than 0.4 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 0.9 miles of one.

• Quincy: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 30 places measured in Massachusetts0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Quincy: nine points in ten are within0.9 miles

Across the 30 places measured in Massachusetts, the median typical distance is 0.6 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Quincy is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera31% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera64% of the area

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

350 feet to 0.2 miles

Within 200 feet of another

10 of 56 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Quincy to the nearest other one in Quincy. Half of the gaps are shorter than 650 feet, and the middle half run from 350 feet to 0.2 miles. In Quincy, 10 of 56 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 93% of the cameras here (52 of 56 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is west, with 12 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.

For every 10,000 residents, Quincy has 5.5 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 101,636 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 Quincy, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Braintree Town, MA3.3 miles south, 24 mapped camerasShow Braintree Town on the map
• Milton, MA3.4 miles west, 12 mapped camerasShow Milton on the map
• Weymouth Town, MA5.2 miles southeast, 33 mapped camerasShow Weymouth Town on the map
• Randolph Town, MA5.3 miles south, 10 mapped camerasShow Randolph Town on the map
• Boston, MA5.9 miles northwest, 45 mapped camerasShow Boston on the map
• Holbrook, MA7.1 miles south, 1 mapped cameraShow Holbrook on the map
• Hull, MA7.7 miles east, 4 mapped camerasShow Hull on the map
• Dedham, MA8.1 miles west, 8 mapped camerasShow Dedham on the map

The distance and area figures for Quincy come from 4,531 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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