How close is the nearest license plate camera in Portland, OR?

Half of the points sampled inside Portland are closer to a mapped camera than 0.9 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 2.3 miles of one.

• Portland: typical distance0.9 miles
• Median of the 11 places measured in Oregon0.8 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Portland: nine points in ten are within2.3 miles

Across the 11 places measured in Oregon, the median typical distance is 0.8 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Portland is longer than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera6% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera22% of the area

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

650 feet

Middle half of the gaps

200 feet to 0.8 miles

Within 200 feet of another

17 of 71 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Portland to the nearest other one in Portland. Half of the gaps are shorter than 650 feet, and the middle half run from 200 feet to 0.8 miles. In Portland, 17 of 71 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 49% of the cameras here (35 of 71 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is west, with 8 cameras. Because 3 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 38 directions from 35 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 6 cameras here.

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

In Portland, 22 of 71 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 31% of the cameras here.

• Public agency1 camera
• Private18 cameras
• Camera company0 cameras
• Other3 cameras
• Not recorded49 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, Portland has 1.1 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 652,503 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 Portland, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• West Haven-Sylvan, OR5.8 miles west, 1 mapped cameraShow West Haven-Sylvan on the map
• Vancouver, WA7.4 miles north, 25 mapped camerasShow Vancouver on the map
• Cedar Hills, OR7.9 miles west, 3 mapped camerasShow Cedar Hills on the map
• Beaverton, OR8.8 miles southwest, 16 mapped camerasShow Beaverton on the map
• Lake Oswego, OR8.9 miles south, 1 mapped cameraShow Lake Oswego on the map
• Happy Valley, OR9.8 miles southeast, 1 mapped cameraShow Happy Valley on the map
• Hazel Dell, WA9.9 miles north, 1 mapped cameraShow Hazel Dell on the map
• Tigard, OR10 miles southwest, 9 mapped camerasShow Tigard on the map

The distance and area figures for Portland come from 9,386 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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