How close is the nearest license plate camera in Kansas City, MO?

Half of the points sampled inside Kansas City are closer to a mapped camera than 0.8 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 2 miles of one.

• Kansas City: typical distance0.8 miles
• Median of the 68 places measured in Missouri0.5 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Kansas City: nine points in ten are within2 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 Kansas City is longer than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera11% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera29% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Kansas City: 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

50 feet

Middle half of the gaps

50 feet to 100 feet

Within 200 feet of another

399 of 505 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Kansas City to the nearest other one in Kansas City. Half of the gaps are shorter than 50 feet, and the middle half run from 50 feet to 100 feet. In Kansas City, 399 of 505 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 (479 of 505 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 91 cameras. Because 25 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 504 directions from 479 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 19 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, Kansas City has 9.9 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 508,090 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 Kansas City, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• North Kansas City, MO1 mile northwest, 3 mapped camerasShow North Kansas City on the map
• Randolph, MO3.9 miles northeast, 2 mapped camerasShow Randolph on the map
• Oaks, MO4.9 miles north, 1 mapped cameraShow Oaks on the map
• Riverside, MO5.1 miles northwest, 3 mapped camerasShow Riverside on the map
• Gladstone, MO6 miles north, 11 mapped camerasShow Gladstone on the map
• Claycomo, MO6.4 miles northeast, 1 mapped cameraShow Claycomo on the map
• Westwood, KS6.9 miles southwest, 1 mapped cameraShow Westwood on the map
• Pleasant Valley, MO7.4 miles northeast, 6 mapped camerasShow Pleasant Valley on the map
• Kansas City, KS10.2 miles west, 178 mapped cameras
• Prairie Village, KS10.6 miles southwest, 65 mapped cameras
• Blue Springs, MO17.1 miles southeast, 74 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Kansas City come from 20,585 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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