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

Half of the points sampled inside Columbus are closer to a mapped camera than 0.6 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 1.1 miles of one.

• Columbus: typical distance0.6 miles
• Median of the 153 places measured in Ohio0.5 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Columbus: 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 Columbus is longer than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera15% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera42% of the area

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

400 feet

Middle half of the gaps

150 feet to 900 feet

Within 200 feet of another

95 of 339 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Columbus to the nearest other one in Columbus. Half of the gaps are shorter than 400 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 900 feet. In Columbus, 95 of 339 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 94% of the cameras here (320 of 339 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is west, with 55 cameras. Because 6 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 326 directions from 320 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 13 cameras here.

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

For every 10,000 residents, Columbus has 3.7 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 905,748 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 Columbus, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Grandview Heights, OH2.8 miles west, 13 mapped camerasShow Grandview Heights on the map
• Bexley, OH3.3 miles southeast, 36 mapped camerasShow Bexley on the map
• Marble Cliff, OH3.8 miles west, 1 mapped cameraShow Marble Cliff on the map
• Upper Arlington, OH5.1 miles northwest, 19 mapped camerasShow Upper Arlington on the map
• Whitehall, OH5.8 miles east, 13 mapped camerasShow Whitehall on the map
• Gahanna, OH6.1 miles northeast, 41 mapped cameras
• Minerva Park, OH6.6 miles northeast, 5 mapped camerasShow Minerva Park on the map
• Worthington, OH7.6 miles north, 23 mapped camerasShow Worthington on the map
• Grove City, OH10 miles southwest, 43 mapped cameras
• Reynoldsburg, OH10.6 miles east, 48 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Columbus come from 14,776 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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