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

Half of the points sampled inside Springfield are closer to a mapped camera than 0.6 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 1.3 miles of one.

• Springfield: typical distance0.6 miles
• Median of the 30 places measured in Massachusetts0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Springfield: nine points in ten are within1.3 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 Springfield is level with the Massachusetts figure and longer than the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera18% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera41% of the area

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

900 feet

Middle half of the gaps

200 feet to 0.3 miles

Within 200 feet of another

15 of 53 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Springfield to the nearest other one in Springfield. Half of the gaps are shorter than 900 feet, and the middle half run from 200 feet to 0.3 miles. In Springfield, 15 of 53 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 91% of the cameras here (48 of 53 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is southeast, with 12 cameras. Because 1 camera carries two directions and is counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 49 directions from 48 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 4 cameras here.

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

In Springfield, 43 of 53 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 81% of the cameras here.

• Public agency39 cameras
• Private4 cameras
• Camera company0 cameras
• Other0 cameras
• Not recorded10 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, Springfield has 3.4 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 155,929 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 Springfield, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Chicopee, MA4.5 miles north, 23 mapped camerasShow Chicopee on the map
• Longmeadow, MA5 miles south, 3 mapped camerasShow Longmeadow on the map
• West Springfield Town, MA5.7 miles west, 8 mapped camerasShow West Springfield Town on the map
• Agawam Town, MA6.7 miles southwest, 5 mapped camerasShow Agawam Town on the map
• Holyoke, MA8.5 miles northwest, 12 mapped camerasShow Holyoke on the map
• Southwood Acres, CT11 miles south, 1 mapped cameraShow Southwood Acres on the map
• Westfield, MA11.2 miles west, 12 mapped camerasShow Westfield on the map
• Monson Center, MA12.1 miles east, 2 mapped camerasShow Monson Center on the map

The distance and area figures for Springfield come from 8,560 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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