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

Half of the points sampled inside Stafford 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.

• Stafford: typical distance0.3 miles
• Median of the 216 places measured in Texas0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Stafford: 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 Stafford is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera40% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera71% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Stafford: 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 600 feet

Within 200 feet of another

15 of 46 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Stafford to the nearest other one in Stafford. Half of the gaps are shorter than 350 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 600 feet. In Stafford, 15 of 46 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 98% of the cameras here (45 of 46 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 1 camera here.

The direction is the compass bearing a mapper noted for the camera, as it stood when they looked.

For every 10,000 residents, Stafford has 26 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 17,666 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 Stafford, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Meadows Place, TX2.1 miles northwest, 9 mapped camerasShow Meadows Place on the map
• Fifth Street, TX2.2 miles south, 1 mapped cameraShow Fifth Street on the map
• Missouri City, TX4.8 miles south, 85 mapped cameras
• Sugar Land, TX4.8 miles southwest, 192 mapped cameras
• Four Corners, TX6.4 miles northwest, 1 mapped cameraShow Four Corners on the map
• Mission Bend, TX7.6 miles northwest, 2 mapped camerasShow Mission Bend on the map
• Fresno, TX7.7 miles southeast, 9 mapped camerasShow Fresno on the map
• Bellaire, TX8.2 miles northeast, 36 mapped camerasShow Bellaire on the map
• West University Place, TX10.1 miles northeast, 73 mapped cameras
• Houston, TX15.4 miles northeast, 2,464 mapped cameras
• Katy, TX19.9 miles northwest, 55 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Stafford come from 1,821 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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