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

Half of the points sampled inside Forney are closer to a mapped camera than 0.5 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 0.9 miles of one.

• Forney: typical distance0.5 miles
• Median of the 216 places measured in Texas0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Forney: nine points in ten are within0.9 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 Forney is shorter than the Texas figure and level with the national one.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera21% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera54% of the area

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

300 feet

Middle half of the gaps

250 feet to 650 feet

Within 200 feet of another

9 of 40 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Forney to the nearest other one in Forney. Half of the gaps are shorter than 300 feet, and the middle half run from 250 feet to 650 feet. In Forney, 9 of 40 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 93% of the cameras here (37 of 40 cameras).

The most common recorded directions are southeast and south, with 7 cameras each. A direction of exactly 0 is treated as not recorded, because that value is often left on a pin nobody set; that leaves out 3 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, Forney has 17.1 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 23,455 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 Forney, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Travis Ranch, TX4.3 miles north, 20 mapped camerasShow Travis Ranch on the map
• Heartland, TX4.7 miles south, 9 mapped camerasShow Heartland on the map
• Heath, TX7 miles north, 25 mapped camerasShow Heath on the map
• Sunnyvale, TX7.2 miles northwest, 9 mapped camerasShow Sunnyvale on the map
• Mesquite, TX7.8 miles west, 77 mapped cameras
• Crandall, TX8 miles south, 2 mapped camerasShow Crandall on the map
• McLendon-Chisholm, TX8.1 miles northeast, 1 mapped cameraShow McLendon-Chisholm on the map
• Seagoville, TX8.3 miles southwest, 6 mapped camerasShow Seagoville on the map
• Rowlett, TX13.2 miles northwest, 49 mapped cameras
• Dallas, TX20.1 miles west, 944 mapped cameras
• Richardson, TX21.7 miles northwest, 104 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Forney come from 4,151 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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