How close is the nearest license plate camera in Las Vegas, NV?

Half of the points sampled inside Las Vegas 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 2.3 miles of one.

• Las Vegas: typical distance0.7 miles
• Median of the 12 places measured in Nevada0.8 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Las Vegas: nine points in ten are within2.3 miles

Across the 12 places measured in Nevada, 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 Vegas is shorter than the Nevada figure and longer than the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera11% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera31% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Las Vegas: 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

200 feet

Middle half of the gaps

100 feet to 500 feet

Within 200 feet of another

95 of 200 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Las Vegas to the nearest other one in Las Vegas. Half of the gaps are shorter than 200 feet, and the middle half run from 100 feet to 500 feet. In Las Vegas, 95 of 200 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 96% of the cameras here (192 of 200 cameras).

The most common recorded directions are northeast and southwest, with 36 cameras each. Because 6 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 198 directions from 192 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.

In Las Vegas, 92 of 200 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 46% of the cameras here.

• Public agency60 cameras
• Private31 cameras
• Camera company0 cameras
• Other1 camera
• Not recorded108 cameras

The kinds are read from the operator names mappers typed. A name is counted as private only when it plainly belongs to a business, an association or another private owner; a name the rules cannot place is counted as other; and where no operator is recorded the camera is not assumed to be anybody’s. The method page sets out how a name is sorted into a kind.

For every 10,000 residents, Las Vegas has 3.1 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 641,903 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 Vegas, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Summerlin South, NV8.6 miles southwest, 47 mapped camerasShow Summerlin South on the map
• Spring Valley, NV9.7 miles south, 39 mapped camerasShow Spring Valley on the map
• Winchester, NV10.2 miles southeast, 8 mapped camerasShow Winchester on the map
• North Las Vegas, NV10.8 miles east, 30 mapped camerasShow North Las Vegas on the map
• Paradise, NV12.6 miles southeast, 121 mapped cameras
• Sunrise Manor, NV12.7 miles east, 33 mapped camerasShow Sunrise Manor on the map
• Whitney, NV15.8 miles southeast, 2 mapped camerasShow Whitney on the map
• Enterprise, NV15.8 miles south, 22 mapped camerasShow Enterprise on the map

The distance and area figures for Las Vegas come from 9,221 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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