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

Half of the points sampled inside Hempstead are closer to a mapped camera than 800 feet, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 0.3 miles of one.

• Hempstead: typical distance800 feet
• Median of the 57 places measured in New York0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Hempstead: nine points in ten are within0.3 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 Hempstead is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera87% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera100% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Hempstead: 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. The shares are rounded to whole percents, so 100% can stand for anything from 99.5% of the area inside the boundary upward.

Median gap

450 feet

Middle half of the gaps

100 feet to 700 feet

Within 200 feet of another

22 of 56 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Hempstead to the nearest other one in Hempstead. Half of the gaps are shorter than 450 feet, and the middle half run from 100 feet to 700 feet. In Hempstead, 22 of 56 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 91% of the cameras here (51 of 56 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is southeast, with 10 cameras. Because 1 camera carries two directions and is counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 52 directions from 51 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 4 cameras here.

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

In Hempstead, 51 of 56 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 91% of the cameras here.

• Public agency45 cameras
• Private6 cameras
• Camera company0 cameras
• Other0 cameras
• Not recorded5 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, Hempstead has 9.5 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 59,169 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 Hempstead, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Uniondale, NY1.6 miles northeast, 29 mapped camerasShow Uniondale on the map
• West Hempstead, NY1.7 miles west, 2 mapped camerasShow West Hempstead on the map
• Garden City, NY2 miles northwest, 21 mapped camerasShow Garden City on the map
• Garden City South, NY2.2 miles west, 1 mapped cameraShow Garden City South on the map
• Roosevelt, NY2.5 miles southeast, 4 mapped camerasShow Roosevelt on the map
• Rockville Centre, NY2.9 miles south, 3 mapped camerasShow Rockville Centre on the map
• Franklin Square, NY3.1 miles west, 2 mapped camerasShow Franklin Square on the map
• Carle Place, NY3.2 miles north, 1 mapped cameraShow Carle Place on the map
• Old Westbury, NY5.8 miles north, 46 mapped cameras
• New York, NY13.6 miles west, 1,325 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Hempstead come from 954 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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