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

Half of the points sampled inside Farmers Branch 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 0.5 miles of one.

• Farmers Branch: typical distance0.3 miles
• Median of the 216 places measured in Texas0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Farmers Branch: nine points in ten are within0.5 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 Farmers Branch is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera47% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera91% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Farmers Branch: 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

50 feet to 0.4 miles

Within 200 feet of another

27 of 64 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Farmers Branch to the nearest other one in Farmers Branch. Half of the gaps are shorter than 400 feet, and the middle half run from 50 feet to 0.4 miles. In Farmers Branch, 27 of 64 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 89% of the cameras here (57 of 64 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 11 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, Farmers Branch has 17.8 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 35,991 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 Farmers Branch, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Addison, TX3.4 miles northeast, 67 mapped cameras
• Carrollton, TX4.4 miles north, 108 mapped cameras
• Coppell, TX6.9 miles west, 30 mapped camerasShow Coppell on the map
• Irving, TX7.1 miles southwest, 85 mapped camerasShow Irving on the map
• University Park, TX7.3 miles southeast, 18 mapped camerasShow University Park on the map
• Highland Park, TX8.1 miles southeast, 4 mapped camerasShow Highland Park on the map
• Lewisville, TX9.8 miles northwest, 63 mapped camerasShow Lewisville on the map
• Richardson, TX10.4 miles east, 104 mapped cameras
• Dallas, TX11.2 miles southeast, 944 mapped cameras
• Euless, TX12.7 miles southwest, 67 mapped cameras
• Frisco, TX16.2 miles north, 144 mapped cameras
• Rowlett, TX19.2 miles east, 49 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Farmers Branch come from 3,132 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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