How close is the nearest license plate camera in Detroit, MI?

Half of the points sampled inside Detroit are closer to a mapped camera than 0.3 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 0.6 miles of one.

• Detroit: typical distance0.3 miles
• Median of the 63 places measured in Michigan0.5 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Detroit: nine points in ten are within0.6 miles

Across the 63 places measured in Michigan, the median typical distance is 0.5 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Detroit is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera32% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera78% of the area

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

300 feet

Middle half of the gaps

150 feet to 500 feet

Within 200 feet of another

164 of 560 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Detroit to the nearest other one in Detroit. Half of the gaps are shorter than 300 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 500 feet. In Detroit, 164 of 560 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 (548 of 560 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is west, with 79 cameras. Because 24 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 572 directions from 548 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 6 cameras here.

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

In Detroit, 498 of 560 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 89% of the cameras here.

• Public agency476 cameras
• Private9 cameras
• Camera company0 cameras
• Other13 cameras
• Not recorded62 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, Detroit has 8.8 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 639,111 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 Detroit, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Highland Park, MI1.5 miles north, 20 mapped camerasShow Highland Park on the map
• Hamtramck, MI2.5 miles east, 15 mapped camerasShow Hamtramck on the map
• Hazel Park, MI5.4 miles north, 8 mapped camerasShow Hazel Park on the map
• Oak Park, MI6.9 miles northwest, 14 mapped camerasShow Oak Park on the map
• Dearborn, MI7.5 miles southwest, 91 mapped cameras
• River Rouge, MI7.8 miles south, 24 mapped camerasShow River Rouge on the map
• Melvindale, MI8.2 miles southwest, 14 mapped camerasShow Melvindale on the map
• Warren, MI8.4 miles northeast, 34 mapped camerasShow Warren on the map
• Southfield, MI10.2 miles northwest, 63 mapped cameras
• Taylor, MI13.8 miles southwest, 60 mapped cameras
• Romulus, MI17.4 miles southwest, 62 mapped cameras
• Pontiac, MI20.6 miles northwest, 48 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Detroit come from 9,184 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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