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

Half of the points sampled inside New York 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.

• New York: 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
• New York: 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 New York is level with the New York figure and shorter than the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera32% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera65% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of New York: 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 700 feet

Within 200 feet of another

498 of 1,325 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in New York to the nearest other one in New York. Half of the gaps are shorter than 250 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 700 feet. In New York, 498 of 1,325 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 82% of the cameras here (1,092 of 1,325 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is northwest, with 263 cameras. Because 817 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 1,909 directions from 1,092 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 31 cameras here.

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

In New York, 1,086 of 1,325 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 82% of the cameras here.

• Public agency1,046 cameras
• Private17 cameras
• Camera company7 cameras
• Other16 cameras
• Not recorded239 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, New York has 1.5 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 8,804,190 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 New York, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• University Gardens, NY8.7 miles northeast, 3 mapped camerasShow University Gardens on the map
• Edgewater, NJ8.8 miles northwest, 2 mapped camerasShow Edgewater on the map
• Elmont, NY9 miles east, 10 mapped camerasShow Elmont on the map
• Great Neck Plaza, NY9.2 miles northeast, 1 mapped cameraShow Great Neck Plaza on the map
• North Valley Stream, NY9.2 miles east, 4 mapped camerasShow North Valley Stream on the map
• Inwood, NY9.5 miles southeast, 7 mapped camerasShow Inwood on the map
• Lake Success, NY9.5 miles east, 6 mapped camerasShow Lake Success on the map
• Great Neck, NY9.5 miles northeast, 2 mapped camerasShow Great Neck on the map
• Hempstead, NY13.6 miles east, 56 mapped cameras
• Old Westbury, NY15.4 miles east, 46 mapped cameras
• Woodbridge, NJ24.3 miles southwest, 56 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for New York come from 21,956 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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