How close is the nearest license plate camera in Ridgeland, MS?

Half of the points sampled inside Ridgeland are closer to a mapped camera than 0.6 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 1.4 miles of one.

• Ridgeland: typical distance0.6 miles
• Median of the 28 places measured in Mississippi0.7 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Ridgeland: nine points in ten are within1.4 miles

Across the 28 places measured in Mississippi, the median typical distance is 0.7 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Ridgeland is shorter than the Mississippi figure and longer than the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera18% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera45% of the area

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

350 feet

Middle half of the gaps

150 feet to 950 feet

Within 200 feet of another

27 of 58 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Ridgeland to the nearest other one in Ridgeland. Half of the gaps are shorter than 350 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 950 feet. In Ridgeland, 27 of 58 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 97% of the cameras here (56 of 58 cameras).

The most common recorded directions are east and southeast, with 12 cameras each. A direction of exactly 0 is treated as not recorded, because that value is often left on a pin nobody set; that leaves out 2 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, Ridgeland has 23.8 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 24,340 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 Ridgeland, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Madison, MS4 miles northeast, 17 mapped camerasShow Madison on the map
• Gluckstadt, MS7.9 miles northeast, 13 mapped camerasShow Gluckstadt on the map
• Jackson, MS8.1 miles southwest, 35 mapped camerasShow Jackson on the map
• Flowood, MS8.7 miles southeast, 31 mapped camerasShow Flowood on the map
• Pearl, MS11.2 miles south, 9 mapped camerasShow Pearl on the map
• Clinton, MS11.5 miles southwest, 4 mapped camerasShow Clinton on the map
• Richland, MS13.3 miles south, 1 mapped cameraShow Richland on the map
• Canton, MS14.2 miles northeast, 9 mapped camerasShow Canton on the map

The distance and area figures for Ridgeland come from 7,271 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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