How close is the nearest license plate camera in Buffalo, NY?

Half of the points sampled inside Buffalo 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 1 mile of one.

• Buffalo: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 57 places measured in New York0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Buffalo: nine points in ten are within1 mile

Across the 57 places measured in New York, the median typical distance is 0.4 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Buffalo is level with the New York figure and shorter than the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera21% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera57% of the area

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

under 20 feet

Middle half of the gaps

under 20 feet to 50 feet

Within 200 feet of another

109 of 131 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Buffalo to the nearest other one in Buffalo. Half of the gaps are under 20 feet, and the middle half run from under 20 feet to 50 feet. In Buffalo, 109 of 131 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 92% of the cameras here (121 of 131 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 22 cameras. Because 1 camera carries two directions and is counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 122 directions from 121 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 9 cameras here.

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

In Buffalo, 105 of 131 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 80% of the cameras here.

• Public agency105 cameras
• Private0 cameras
• Camera company0 cameras
• Other0 cameras
• Not recorded26 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, Buffalo has 4.7 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 278,349 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 Buffalo, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Sloan, NY3 miles east, 2 mapped camerasShow Sloan on the map
• Kenmore, NY4.5 miles north, 5 mapped camerasShow Kenmore on the map
• Eggertsville, NY5 miles northeast, 6 mapped camerasShow Eggertsville on the map
• Cheektowaga, NY5 miles east, 48 mapped cameras
• Lackawanna, NY5.8 miles south, 7 mapped camerasShow Lackawanna on the map
• Tonawanda Town, NY5.9 miles north, 15 mapped camerasShow Tonawanda Town on the map
• West Seneca, NY6.7 miles southeast, 11 mapped camerasShow West Seneca on the map
• University at Buffalo, NY7.6 miles northeast, 1 mapped cameraShow University at Buffalo on the map

The distance and area figures for Buffalo come from 10,829 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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