How close is the nearest license plate camera in Severn, MD?

Half of the points sampled inside Severn are closer to a mapped camera than 0.5 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 1 mile of one.

• Severn: typical distance0.5 miles
• Median of the 15 places measured in Maryland0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Severn: nine points in ten are within1 mile

Across the 15 places measured in Maryland, the median typical distance is 0.6 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Severn is shorter than the Maryland figure and level with the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera20% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera53% of the area

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

350 feet

Middle half of the gaps

50 feet to 700 feet

Within 200 feet of another

23 of 47 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Severn to the nearest other one in Severn. Half of the gaps are shorter than 350 feet, and the middle half run from 50 feet to 700 feet. In Severn, 23 of 47 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 87% of the cameras here (41 of 47 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 12 cameras. Because 1 camera carries two directions and is counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 42 directions from 41 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 3 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, Severn has 8.2 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 57,118 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 Severn, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Fort Meade, MD3.3 miles southwest, 1 mapped cameraShow Fort Meade on the map
• Gambrills, MD3.8 miles southeast, 1 mapped cameraShow Gambrills on the map
• Jessup, MD4.5 miles west, 3 mapped camerasShow Jessup on the map
• Elkridge, MD4.8 miles northwest, 5 mapped camerasShow Elkridge on the map
• Odenton, MD4.8 miles south, 24 mapped camerasShow Odenton on the map
• Ferndale, MD4.9 miles northeast, 5 mapped camerasShow Ferndale on the map
• Glen Burnie, MD4.9 miles east, 47 mapped cameras
• Linthicum, MD5.4 miles north, 8 mapped camerasShow Linthicum on the map
• Baltimore, MD12.5 miles north, 50 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Severn come from 4,736 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.

Severn is a census-designated place: a named community the Census Bureau draws a boundary for, with no municipal government of its own.

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