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

Half of the points sampled inside Houston 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.

• Houston: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 216 places measured in Texas0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Houston: 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 Houston is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera29% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera60% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Houston: 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 900 feet

Within 200 feet of another

824 of 2,464 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Houston to the nearest other one in Houston. Half of the gaps are shorter than 350 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 900 feet. In Houston, 824 of 2,464 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 (2,321 of 2,464 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 420 cameras. Because 27 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 2,348 directions from 2,321 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 94 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, Houston has 10.7 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 2,304,580 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 Houston, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Hilshire Village, TX5.6 miles west, 5 mapped camerasShow Hilshire Village on the map
• West University Place, TX5.8 miles south, 73 mapped cameras
• Hunters Creek Village, TX6.4 miles west, 15 mapped camerasShow Hunters Creek Village on the map
• Spring Valley Village, TX6.5 miles west, 26 mapped camerasShow Spring Valley Village on the map
• Bellaire, TX7.4 miles southwest, 36 mapped camerasShow Bellaire on the map
• Hedwig Village, TX7.5 miles west, 10 mapped camerasShow Hedwig Village on the map
• Piney Point Village, TX7.6 miles west, 14 mapped camerasShow Piney Point Village on the map
• Aldine, TX8.3 miles north, 10 mapped camerasShow Aldine on the map
• Stafford, TX15.4 miles southwest, 46 mapped cameras
• Humble, TX15.8 miles northeast, 71 mapped cameras
• Atascocita, TX16.9 miles northeast, 71 mapped cameras
• Pasadena, TX17.3 miles southeast, 91 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Houston come from 43,495 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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