How close is the nearest license plate camera in Billings, MT?
41 of 51 mapped cameras are recorded as made by Flock Safety, 10 as other makers. From a typical point inside Billings, the nearest mapped camera is 1.1 miles away in a straight line, and nine points in ten are within 3.1 miles of one. Of the area inside its boundary, 7% lies within a quarter mile of a mapped camera and 21% within half a mile. Camera to camera, the median gap to the nearest other one is 150 feet.
Data as of , updated weekly. The figures for Billings last changed on .
Where the cameras are mapped
- 1 camera
- 2 or 3 cameras
- 4 to 7 cameras
Each hexagon is 0.4 miles across and is shaded by the number of mapped cameras inside it. The 51 mapped cameras inside Billings fall in 16 hexagons; the fullest holds 6 cameras. The outline is the boundary of Billings, simplified for drawing.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau
How close is the nearest camera
Half of the points sampled inside Billings are closer to a mapped camera than 1.1 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 3.1 miles of one.
- Billings: typical distance1.1 miles
- Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
- Billings: nine points in ten are within3.1 miles
Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, the median typical distance is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Billings is longer than that.
How much of Billings is near one
- Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera7% of the area
- Within half a mile of a mapped camera21% of the area
Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Billings: 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.
How far apart they stand
- Median gap
- 150 feet
- Middle half of the gaps
- under 20 feet to 300 feet
- Within 200 feet of another
- 26 of 51 cameras
The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Billings to the nearest other one in Billings. Half of the gaps are shorter than 150 feet, and the middle half run from under 20 feet to 300 feet. In Billings, 26 of 51 cameras stand within 200 feet (60 metres) of another, which usually means two on one pole or a group at one intersection.
Which way they point
A direction is recorded for 90% of the cameras here (46 of 51 cameras).
Cameras by recorded direction
- North
- 5
- Northeast
- 4
- East
- 5
- Southeast
- 4
- South
- 10
- Southwest
- 7
- West
- 6
- Northwest
- 7
The most common recorded direction is south, with 10 cameras. Because 2 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 48 directions from 46 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 3 cameras here.
The direction is the compass bearing a mapper noted for the camera, as it stood when they looked.
For its size
For every 10,000 residents, Billings has 4.4 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 117,116 residents there. Among the places measured nationwide, the median is 8.1 mapped cameras for every 10,000 residents.
Nearby
No other place with a mapped camera lies within 25 miles of Billings.
How these figures are worked out
The distance and area figures for Billings come from 12,020 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.
Questions about this page
What does “typical distance” mean for Billings?
It is a median, not the distance from any one address. Of the 12,020 sample points inside Billings, half are closer to a mapped camera than 1.1 miles and half are farther. For the cameras nearest to a spot you care about, check that address itself.
Why is a camera I have seen not counted here?
Most likely nobody has added it to OpenStreetMap, which is where every pin on this site comes from. That makes each count on this page a floor: the cameras somebody has mapped, and no others. Add the camera there and it shows up here after the next refresh, which runs once a week.
Why does the title say “Flock & Other” and not just “Flock”?
Flock Safety is the recorded maker of 80% of the mapped cameras here (41 of 51 cameras). A page on this site names Flock only where that share is 60% or more, and says “other” because the rest are not recorded as Flock’s.