How close is the nearest license plate camera in Akron, OH?

Half of the points sampled inside Akron 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 1.1 miles of one.

• Akron: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 153 places measured in Ohio0.5 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Akron: nine points in ten are within1.1 miles

Across the 153 places measured in Ohio, the median typical distance is 0.5 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Akron is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera22% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera56% of the area

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

150 feet

Middle half of the gaps

100 feet to 550 feet

Within 200 feet of another

85 of 158 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Akron to the nearest other one in Akron. Half of the gaps are shorter than 150 feet, and the middle half run from 100 feet to 550 feet. In Akron, 85 of 158 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 (152 of 158 cameras).

The most common recorded directions are east and south, with 22 cameras each. 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 Akron, 75 of 158 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 47% of the cameras here.

• Public agency7 cameras
• Private0 cameras
• Camera company68 cameras
• Other0 cameras
• Not recorded83 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, Akron has 8.3 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 190,469 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 Akron, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Tallmadge, OH5.5 miles east, 26 mapped camerasShow Tallmadge on the map
• Cuyahoga Falls, OH5.9 miles north, 39 mapped camerasShow Cuyahoga Falls on the map
• Munroe Falls, OH6.1 miles northeast, 3 mapped camerasShow Munroe Falls on the map
• Fairlawn, OH6.1 miles northwest, 9 mapped camerasShow Fairlawn on the map
• Silver Lake, OH6.4 miles northeast, 1 mapped cameraShow Silver Lake on the map
• Lakemore, OH6.4 miles southeast, 1 mapped cameraShow Lakemore on the map
• Barberton, OH6.5 miles southwest, 17 mapped camerasShow Barberton on the map
• Mogadore, OH6.7 miles east, 3 mapped camerasShow Mogadore on the map
• Canton, OH20.4 miles southeast, 53 mapped cameras
• Independence, OH21.5 miles north, 44 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Akron come from 4,014 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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