How close is the nearest license plate camera in Minneapolis, MN?

Half of the points sampled inside Minneapolis 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 1.1 miles of one.

• Minneapolis: typical distance0.5 miles
• Median of the 42 places measured in Minnesota0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Minneapolis: nine points in ten are within1.1 miles

Across the 42 places measured in Minnesota, the median typical distance is 0.6 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Minneapolis is shorter than the Minnesota figure and level with the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera19% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera51% of the area

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

250 feet

Middle half of the gaps

50 feet to 900 feet

Within 200 feet of another

51 of 107 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Minneapolis to the nearest other one in Minneapolis. Half of the gaps are shorter than 250 feet, and the middle half run from 50 feet to 900 feet. In Minneapolis, 51 of 107 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 78% of the cameras here (83 of 107 cameras).

The most common recorded directions are east and south, with 18 cameras each. Because 25 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 108 directions from 83 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.

In Minneapolis, 56 of 107 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 52% of the cameras here.

• Public agency53 cameras
• Private2 cameras
• Camera company0 cameras
• Other1 camera
• Not recorded51 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, Minneapolis has 2.5 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 429,954 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 Minneapolis, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Falcon Heights, MN4.8 miles east, 8 mapped camerasShow Falcon Heights on the map
• Golden Valley, MN4.8 miles west, 6 mapped camerasShow Golden Valley on the map
• St. Louis Park, MN4.9 miles west, 32 mapped camerasShow St. Louis Park on the map
• Robbinsdale, MN5.4 miles northwest, 2 mapped camerasShow Robbinsdale on the map
• Columbia Heights, MN6 miles north, 9 mapped camerasShow Columbia Heights on the map
• Richfield, MN6.1 miles south, 19 mapped camerasShow Richfield on the map
• Roseville, MN6.6 miles northeast, 15 mapped camerasShow Roseville on the map
• Edina, MN6.7 miles southwest, 45 mapped camerasShow Edina on the map
• Woodbury, MN17.3 miles east, 78 mapped cameras
• Cottage Grove, MN19.5 miles southeast, 138 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Minneapolis come from 3,750 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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