How close is the nearest license plate camera in Cranston, RI?

Half of the points sampled inside Cranston 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 1.2 miles of one.

• Cranston: typical distance0.6 miles
• Median of the 6 places measured in Rhode Island0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Cranston: nine points in ten are within1.2 miles

Across the 6 places measured in Rhode Island, the median typical distance is 0.4 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Cranston is longer than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera15% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera43% of the area

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

0.3 miles

Middle half of the gaps

250 feet to 0.5 miles

Within 200 feet of another

6 of 37 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Cranston to the nearest other one in Cranston. Half of the gaps are shorter than 0.3 miles, and the middle half run from 250 feet to 0.5 miles. In Cranston, 6 of 37 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 84% of the cameras here (31 of 37 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 8 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 Cranston, 14 of 37 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 38% of the cameras here.

• Public agency14 cameras
• Private0 cameras
• Camera company0 cameras
• Other0 cameras
• Not recorded23 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, Cranston has 4.5 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 82,934 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 Cranston, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Warwick, RI4.7 miles southeast, 20 mapped camerasShow Warwick on the map
• Providence, RI5.3 miles northeast, 90 mapped cameras
• East Providence, RI7.2 miles northeast, 21 mapped camerasShow East Providence on the map
• Pawtucket, RI9.4 miles northeast, 27 mapped camerasShow Pawtucket on the map
• Central Falls, RI9.8 miles northeast, 4 mapped camerasShow Central Falls on the map
• North Seekonk, MA11.7 miles northeast, 3 mapped camerasShow North Seekonk on the map
• Valley Falls, RI11.9 miles northeast, 4 mapped camerasShow Valley Falls on the map
• Chepachet, RI13.6 miles northwest, 1 mapped cameraShow Chepachet on the map

The distance and area figures for Cranston come from 7,493 sample points, laid 100 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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