How close is the nearest license plate camera in Germantown, TN?

Half of the points sampled inside Germantown are closer to a mapped camera than 0.3 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 0.6 miles of one.

• Germantown: typical distance0.3 miles
• Median of the 57 places measured in Tennessee0.7 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Germantown: nine points in ten are within0.6 miles

Across the 57 places measured in Tennessee, the median typical distance is 0.7 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Germantown is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera37% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera77% of the area

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

400 feet

Middle half of the gaps

250 feet to 0.2 miles

Within 200 feet of another

20 of 88 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Germantown to the nearest other one in Germantown. Half of the gaps are shorter than 400 feet, and the middle half run from 250 feet to 0.2 miles. In Germantown, 20 of 88 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 92% of the cameras here (81 of 88 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 18 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 7 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, Germantown has 21.3 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 41,333 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 Germantown, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Collierville, TN5.4 miles southeast, 89 mapped cameras
• Olive Branch, MS9.5 miles south, 46 mapped camerasShow Olive Branch on the map
• Piperton, TN10 miles east, 7 mapped camerasShow Piperton on the map
• Memphis, TN10.6 miles west, 479 mapped cameras
• Bartlett, TN10.7 miles north, 27 mapped camerasShow Bartlett on the map
• Lakeland, TN12.5 miles north, 28 mapped camerasShow Lakeland on the map
• Arlington, TN13.8 miles northeast, 24 mapped camerasShow Arlington on the map
• Southaven, MS14.3 miles southwest, 31 mapped camerasShow Southaven on the map

The distance and area figures for Germantown come from 5,175 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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