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

Half of the points sampled inside Pittsburgh 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.

• Pittsburgh: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 61 places measured in Pennsylvania0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Pittsburgh: nine points in ten are within1.1 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 Pittsburgh is level with the Pennsylvania figure and shorter than the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera29% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera59% of the area

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

100 feet

Middle half of the gaps

50 feet to 400 feet

Within 200 feet of another

173 of 281 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Pittsburgh to the nearest other one in Pittsburgh. Half of the gaps are shorter than 100 feet, and the middle half run from 50 feet to 400 feet. In Pittsburgh, 173 of 281 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 83% of the cameras here (233 of 281 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is west, with 42 cameras. Because 12 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 245 directions from 233 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 34 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, Pittsburgh has 9.3 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 302,971 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 Pittsburgh, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Millvale, PA2.9 miles north, 6 mapped camerasShow Millvale on the map
• West Homestead, PA3.9 miles southeast, 3 mapped camerasShow West Homestead on the map
• Homestead, PA4.1 miles southeast, 6 mapped camerasShow Homestead on the map
• Etna, PA4.3 miles north, 10 mapped camerasShow Etna on the map
• Green Tree, PA4.4 miles west, 1 mapped cameraShow Green Tree on the map
• Dormont, PA4.5 miles southwest, 5 mapped camerasShow Dormont on the map
• Brentwood, PA4.6 miles south, 7 mapped camerasShow Brentwood on the map
• Edgewood, PA4.9 miles east, 8 mapped camerasShow Edgewood on the map
• Bethel Park, PA8.6 miles south, 47 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Pittsburgh come from 3,778 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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