How close is the nearest license plate camera in St. Charles, MO?

Half of the points sampled inside St. Charles 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.

• St. Charles: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 68 places measured in Missouri0.5 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• St. Charles: 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 St. Charles is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera21% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera58% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of St. Charles: 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 400 feet

Within 200 feet of another

42 of 68 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in St. Charles to the nearest other one in St. Charles. Half of the gaps are shorter than 150 feet, and the middle half run from 100 feet to 400 feet. In St. Charles, 42 of 68 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 96% of the cameras here (65 of 68 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is east, with 13 cameras. Because 6 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 71 directions from 65 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 1 camera here.

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

In St. Charles, 62 of 68 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 91% of the cameras here.

• Public agency52 cameras
• Private10 cameras
• Camera company0 cameras
• Other0 cameras
• Not recorded6 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, St. Charles has 9.6 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 70,493 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 St. Charles, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• St. Peters, MO4.9 miles west, 75 mapped cameras
• Bridgeton, MO5.2 miles east, 22 mapped camerasShow Bridgeton on the map
• Maryland Heights, MO5.7 miles southeast, 40 mapped camerasShow Maryland Heights on the map
• Hazelwood, MO6.8 miles east, 15 mapped camerasShow Hazelwood on the map
• Cottleville, MO8.2 miles west, 8 mapped camerasShow Cottleville on the map
• St. Ann, MO8.4 miles southeast, 6 mapped camerasShow St. Ann on the map
• Edmundson, MO9.1 miles southeast, 5 mapped camerasShow Edmundson on the map
• Weldon Spring, MO9.3 miles southwest, 8 mapped camerasShow Weldon Spring on the map
• O'Fallon, MO11.1 miles west, 77 mapped cameras
• St. Louis, MO18.3 miles southeast, 190 mapped cameras
• Alton, IL21 miles east, 61 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for St. Charles come from 6,669 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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