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

Half of the points sampled inside Elmira are closer to a mapped camera than 0.2 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 0.4 miles of one.

• Elmira: typical distance0.2 miles
• Median of the 57 places measured in New York0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Elmira: nine points in ten are within0.4 miles

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 Elmira is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera60% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera95% of the area

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

0.2 miles

Middle half of the gaps

650 feet to 0.3 miles

Within 200 feet of another

6 of 42 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Elmira to the nearest other one in Elmira. Half of the gaps are shorter than 0.2 miles, and the middle half run from 650 feet to 0.3 miles. In Elmira, 6 of 42 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 (40 of 42 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is north, with 9 cameras. Because 1 camera carries two directions and is counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 41 directions from 40 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 1 camera here.

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

For every 10,000 residents, Elmira has 15.8 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 26,523 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 Elmira, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• West Elmira, NY2 miles west, 1 mapped cameraShow West Elmira on the map
• Big Flats, NY6.6 miles northwest, 2 mapped camerasShow Big Flats on the map
• Horseheads North, NY6.8 miles north, 1 mapped cameraShow Horseheads North on the map
• Corning, NY13.2 miles west, 4 mapped camerasShow Corning on the map
• Riverside, NY14.5 miles west, 4 mapped camerasShow Riverside on the map
• South Waverly, PA15.2 miles southeast, 1 mapped cameraShow South Waverly on the map
• Painted Post, NY15.3 miles west, 1 mapped cameraShow Painted Post on the map

The distance and area figures for Elmira come from 1,964 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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