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

Half of the points sampled inside West Fargo 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.

• West Fargo: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 5 places measured in North Dakota0.7 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• West Fargo: nine points in ten are within0.8 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 West Fargo is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera30% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera70% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of West Fargo: 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

200 feet to 1,000 feet

Within 200 feet of another

16 of 55 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in West Fargo to the nearest other one in West Fargo. Half of the gaps are shorter than 350 feet, and the middle half run from 200 feet to 1,000 feet. In West Fargo, 16 of 55 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 (52 of 55 cameras).

The most common recorded directions are south and west, with 9 cameras each. Because 1 camera carries two directions and is counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 53 directions from 52 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 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, West Fargo has 14.2 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 38,626 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 West Fargo, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Fargo, ND3.6 miles east, 52 mapped camerasShow Fargo on the map
• Horace, ND7 miles south, 3 mapped camerasShow Horace on the map
• Mapleton, ND7.4 miles west, 1 mapped cameraShow Mapleton on the map
• Moorhead, MN7.6 miles east, 13 mapped camerasShow Moorhead on the map
• Harwood, ND8.4 miles north, 2 mapped camerasShow Harwood on the map

The distance and area figures for West Fargo come from 4,235 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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