How close is the nearest license plate camera in Tulsa, OK?

Half of the points sampled inside Tulsa 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 1.6 miles of one.

• Tulsa: typical distance0.6 miles
• Median of the 24 places measured in Oklahoma1 mile
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Tulsa: nine points in ten are within1.6 miles

Across the 24 places measured in Oklahoma, the median typical distance is 1 mile. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Tulsa is shorter than the Oklahoma figure and longer than the national one.

• 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 Tulsa: 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

800 feet

Middle half of the gaps

300 feet to 0.5 miles

Within 200 feet of another

46 of 258 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Tulsa to the nearest other one in Tulsa. Half of the gaps are shorter than 800 feet, and the middle half run from 300 feet to 0.5 miles. In Tulsa, 46 of 258 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 90% of the cameras here (232 of 258 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is east, with 46 cameras. Because 6 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 238 directions from 232 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 18 cameras here.

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

In Tulsa, 132 of 258 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 51% of the cameras here.

• Public agency90 cameras
• Private27 cameras
• Camera company6 cameras
• Other9 cameras
• Not recorded126 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, Tulsa has 6.2 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 413,066 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 Tulsa, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Turley, OK8 miles north, 3 mapped camerasShow Turley on the map
• Catoosa, OK8.8 miles northeast, 9 mapped camerasShow Catoosa on the map
• Oakhurst, OK9.8 miles west, 2 mapped camerasShow Oakhurst on the map
• Jenks, OK10 miles south, 21 mapped camerasShow Jenks on the map
• Broken Arrow, OK10.4 miles southeast, 68 mapped camerasShow Broken Arrow on the map
• Owasso, OK11.9 miles northeast, 34 mapped camerasShow Owasso on the map
• Sapulpa, OK13.1 miles southwest, 7 mapped camerasShow Sapulpa on the map
• Bixby, OK13.2 miles south, 21 mapped camerasShow Bixby on the map

The distance and area figures for Tulsa come from 12,990 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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