How close is the nearest license plate camera in Bismarck, ND?

Half of the points sampled inside Bismarck are closer to a mapped camera than 0.7 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 1.7 miles of one.

• Bismarck: typical distance0.7 miles
• Median of the 5 places measured in North Dakota0.7 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Bismarck: nine points in ten are within1.7 miles

Across the 5 places measured in North Dakota, the median typical distance is 0.7 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Bismarck is level with the North Dakota figure and longer than the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera15% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera37% of the area

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

134 of 141 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Bismarck to the nearest other one in Bismarck. Half of the gaps are shorter than 50 feet, and the middle half run from 50 feet to 100 feet. In Bismarck, 134 of 141 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 72% of the cameras here (101 of 141 cameras).

The most common recorded directions are south and west, with 33 cameras each. Because 6 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 107 directions from 101 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 36 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, Bismarck has 19.2 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 73,622 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 Bismarck, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Mandan, ND5.6 miles west, 4 mapped camerasShow Mandan on the map

The distance and area figures for Bismarck come from 9,434 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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