How close is the nearest license plate camera in Blue Springs, MO?

Half of the points sampled inside Blue Springs 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 0.8 miles of one.

• Blue Springs: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 68 places measured in Missouri0.5 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Blue Springs: nine points in ten are within0.8 miles

Across the 68 places measured in Missouri, the median typical distance is 0.5 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Blue Springs is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera22% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera60% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Blue Springs: 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

150 feet

Middle half of the gaps

100 feet to 500 feet

Within 200 feet of another

43 of 74 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Blue Springs to the nearest other one in Blue Springs. Half of the gaps are shorter than 150 feet, and the middle half run from 100 feet to 500 feet. In Blue Springs, 43 of 74 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 95% of the cameras here (70 of 74 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is west, with 15 cameras. Because 7 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 77 directions from 70 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.

For every 10,000 residents, Blue Springs has 12.6 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 58,603 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 Blue Springs, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Grain Valley, MO3.4 miles east, 10 mapped camerasShow Grain Valley on the map
• Independence, MO6.6 miles northwest, 55 mapped camerasShow Independence on the map
• Oak Grove, MO7.7 miles east, 4 mapped camerasShow Oak Grove on the map
• Lee's Summit, MO8.8 miles southwest, 70 mapped camerasShow Lee's Summit on the map
• Raytown, MO10.4 miles west, 9 mapped camerasShow Raytown on the map
• Lone Jack, MO10.8 miles southeast, 1 mapped cameraShow Lone Jack on the map
• Greenwood, MO11.7 miles south, 4 mapped camerasShow Greenwood on the map
• Pleasant Hill, MO14.3 miles south, 2 mapped camerasShow Pleasant Hill on the map
• Kansas City, MO17.1 miles northwest, 505 mapped cameras
• Prairie Village, KS19.6 miles west, 65 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Blue Springs come from 5,816 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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