How close is the nearest license plate camera in Dallas, TX?

Half of the points sampled inside Dallas 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.

• Dallas: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 216 places measured in Texas0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Dallas: nine points in ten are within1.1 miles

Across the 216 places measured in Texas, the median typical distance is 0.6 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Dallas is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera23% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera57% of the area

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

450 feet

Middle half of the gaps

200 feet to 0.2 miles

Within 200 feet of another

246 of 944 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Dallas to the nearest other one in Dallas. Half of the gaps are shorter than 450 feet, and the middle half run from 200 feet to 0.2 miles. In Dallas, 246 of 944 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 94% of the cameras here (892 of 944 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is east, with 122 cameras. Because 16 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 908 directions from 892 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 46 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, Dallas has 7.2 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 1,304,379 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 Dallas, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Highland Park, TX3.4 miles north, 4 mapped camerasShow Highland Park on the map
• University Park, TX4.7 miles north, 18 mapped camerasShow University Park on the map
• Cockrell Hill, TX6.2 miles southwest, 1 mapped cameraShow Cockrell Hill on the map
• Hutchins, TX10.9 miles southeast, 9 mapped camerasShow Hutchins on the map
• Farmers Branch, TX11.2 miles northwest, 64 mapped cameras
• Balch Springs, TX11.3 miles east, 8 mapped camerasShow Balch Springs on the map
• Irving, TX11.5 miles northwest, 85 mapped camerasShow Irving on the map
• Duncanville, TX11.6 miles southwest, 15 mapped camerasShow Duncanville on the map
• Mesquite, TX12.4 miles east, 77 mapped cameras
• Addison, TX12.4 miles north, 67 mapped cameras
• Richardson, TX14 miles north, 104 mapped cameras
• Carrollton, TX15.5 miles northwest, 108 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Dallas come from 24,889 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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