How close is the nearest license plate camera in Philadelphia, PA?

Half of the points sampled inside Philadelphia are closer to a mapped camera than 0.8 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 1.5 miles of one.

• Philadelphia: typical distance0.8 miles
• Median of the 61 places measured in Pennsylvania0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Philadelphia: nine points in ten are within1.5 miles

Across the 61 places measured in Pennsylvania, the median typical distance is 0.4 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Philadelphia is longer than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera10% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera30% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Philadelphia: 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 600 feet

Within 200 feet of another

47 of 131 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Philadelphia to the nearest other one in Philadelphia. Half of the gaps are shorter than 250 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 600 feet. In Philadelphia, 47 of 131 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 85% of the cameras here (112 of 131 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 30 cameras. Because 2 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 114 directions from 112 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, Philadelphia has 0.8 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 1,603,797 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 Philadelphia, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Bala Cynwyd, PA5 miles west, 1 mapped cameraShow Bala Cynwyd on the map
• Palmyra, NJ5.2 miles east, 1 mapped cameraShow Palmyra on the map
• Glenside, PA6.7 miles north, 2 mapped camerasShow Glenside on the map
• Millbourne, PA7 miles southwest, 2 mapped camerasShow Millbourne on the map
• Golden Triangle, NJ7.4 miles southeast, 14 mapped camerasShow Golden Triangle on the map
• Audubon Park, NJ8 miles south, 1 mapped cameraShow Audubon Park on the map
• East Lansdowne, PA8 miles southwest, 1 mapped cameraShow East Lansdowne on the map
• Westmont, NJ8 miles southeast, 15 mapped camerasShow Westmont on the map

The distance and area figures for Philadelphia come from 9,229 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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