How close is the nearest license plate camera in Las Cruces, NM?

Half of the points sampled inside Las Cruces are closer to a mapped camera than 1.3 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 5.7 miles of one.

• Las Cruces: typical distance1.3 miles
• Median of the 18 places measured in New Mexico0.8 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Las Cruces: nine points in ten are within5.7 miles

Across the 18 places measured in New Mexico, the median typical distance is 0.8 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Las Cruces is longer than both.

• 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 Las Cruces: 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

250 feet

Middle half of the gaps

150 feet to 500 feet

Within 200 feet of another

24 of 54 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Las Cruces to the nearest other one in Las Cruces. Half of the gaps are shorter than 250 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 500 feet. In Las Cruces, 24 of 54 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 100% of the cameras here (54 of 54 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is southeast, with 13 cameras. Because 5 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 59 directions from 54 cameras. A direction of exactly 0 is treated as not recorded, because that value is often left on a pin nobody set.

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

For every 10,000 residents, Las Cruces has 4.8 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 111,385 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 Las Cruces, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Fairacres, NM3.2 miles southwest, 1 mapped cameraShow Fairacres on the map
• University Park, NM4.2 miles southeast, 7 mapped camerasShow University Park on the map
• Butterfield Park, NM10 miles northeast, 1 mapped cameraShow Butterfield Park on the map
• San Miguel, NM12.4 miles south, 2 mapped camerasShow San Miguel on the map
• Radium Springs, NM12.5 miles northwest, 1 mapped cameraShow Radium Springs on the map
• Vado, NM15.7 miles southeast, 1 mapped cameraShow Vado on the map
• Anthony, NM24.3 miles southeast, 1 mapped cameraShow Anthony on the map

The distance and area figures for Las Cruces come from 4,952 sample points, laid 200 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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