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

Half of the points sampled inside Melissa 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 0.8 miles of one.

• Melissa: typical distance0.3 miles
• Median of the 216 places measured in Texas0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Melissa: nine points in ten are within0.8 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 Melissa is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera35% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera73% of the area

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

250 feet

Middle half of the gaps

150 feet to 600 feet

Within 200 feet of another

22 of 52 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Melissa to the nearest other one in Melissa. Half of the gaps are shorter than 250 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 600 feet. In Melissa, 22 of 52 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 96% of the cameras here (50 of 52 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is southwest, with 13 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 2 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, Melissa has 37.4 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 13,901 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 Melissa, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Anna, TX4.2 miles north, 26 mapped camerasShow Anna on the map
• Weston, TX7 miles northwest, 1 mapped cameraShow Weston on the map
• Princeton, TX7.7 miles south, 7 mapped camerasShow Princeton on the map
• McKinney, TX8.7 miles southwest, 45 mapped camerasShow McKinney on the map
• Van Alstyne, TX9.3 miles north, 1 mapped cameraShow Van Alstyne on the map
• Fairview, TX10.8 miles south, 2 mapped camerasShow Fairview on the map
• Celina, TX13.7 miles west, 43 mapped camerasShow Celina on the map
• Allen, TX14.1 miles southwest, 63 mapped camerasShow Allen on the map
• Prosper, TX15 miles west, 75 mapped cameras
• Frisco, TX17.8 miles southwest, 144 mapped cameras
• Richardson, TX23.6 miles south, 104 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Melissa come from 2,987 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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