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

Half of the points sampled inside Richardson 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 0.7 miles of one.

• Richardson: typical distance0.3 miles
• Median of the 216 places measured in Texas0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Richardson: nine points in ten are within0.7 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 Richardson is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera32% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera74% of the area

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

150 feet to 0.3 miles

Within 200 feet of another

29 of 104 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Richardson to the nearest other one in Richardson. Half of the gaps are shorter than 450 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 0.3 miles. In Richardson, 29 of 104 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 (98 of 104 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 26 cameras. Because 1 camera carries two directions and is counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 99 directions from 98 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 6 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, Richardson has 8.7 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 119,469 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 Richardson, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Plano, TX5.9 miles northwest, 199 mapped camerasShow Plano on the map
• Garland, TX6.2 miles southeast, 83 mapped camerasShow Garland on the map
• Murphy, TX6.6 miles northeast, 10 mapped camerasShow Murphy on the map
• Addison, TX7.4 miles west, 67 mapped cameras
• Sachse, TX7.5 miles east, 6 mapped camerasShow Sachse on the map
• Parker, TX7.7 miles northeast, 1 mapped cameraShow Parker on the map
• University Park, TX9.7 miles southwest, 18 mapped camerasShow University Park on the map
• Allen, TX9.7 miles north, 63 mapped camerasShow Allen on the map
• Rowlett, TX10.1 miles southeast, 49 mapped cameras
• Farmers Branch, TX10.4 miles west, 64 mapped cameras
• Carrollton, TX11.1 miles west, 108 mapped cameras
• Dallas, TX14 miles south, 944 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Richardson come from 7,433 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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