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

Half of the points sampled inside Memphis 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 1.8 miles of one.

• Memphis: typical distance0.6 miles
• Median of the 57 places measured in Tennessee0.7 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Memphis: nine points in ten are within1.8 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 Memphis is shorter than the Tennessee figure and longer than the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera14% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera38% of the area

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

350 feet

Middle half of the gaps

150 feet to 0.2 miles

Within 200 feet of another

162 of 479 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Memphis to the nearest other one in Memphis. Half of the gaps are shorter than 350 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 0.2 miles. In Memphis, 162 of 479 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 (442 of 479 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is west, with 81 cameras. Because 4 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 446 directions from 442 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 35 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, Memphis has 7.6 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 633,104 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 Memphis, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Germantown, TN10.6 miles east, 88 mapped cameras
• Southaven, MS10.9 miles south, 31 mapped camerasShow Southaven on the map
• Horn Lake, MS11.9 miles southwest, 12 mapped camerasShow Horn Lake on the map
• Bartlett, TN12 miles northeast, 27 mapped camerasShow Bartlett on the map
• Olive Branch, MS12.9 miles southeast, 46 mapped camerasShow Olive Branch on the map
• West Memphis, AR13.6 miles west, 14 mapped camerasShow West Memphis on the map
• Marion, AR14.4 miles northwest, 23 mapped camerasShow Marion on the map
• Collierville, TN15.8 miles east, 89 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Memphis come from 19,346 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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