How close is the nearest license plate camera in West University Place, TX?

Half of the points sampled inside West University Place are closer to a mapped camera than 0.2 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 0.4 miles of one.

• West University Place: typical distance0.2 miles
• Median of the 216 places measured in Texas0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• West University Place: nine points in ten are within0.4 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 West University Place is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera62% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera100% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of West University Place: 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. The shares are rounded to whole percents, so 100% can stand for anything from 99.5% of the area inside the boundary upward.

Median gap

under 20 feet

Middle half of the gaps

under 20 feet

Within 200 feet of another

69 of 73 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in West University Place to the nearest other one in West University Place. Half of the gaps are under 20 feet, and the middle half sit at under 20 feet. In West University Place, 69 of 73 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 82% of the cameras here (60 of 73 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is west, with 24 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 12 cameras here.

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

In West University Place, 72 of 73 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 99% of the cameras here.

• Public agency72 cameras
• Private0 cameras
• Camera company0 cameras
• Other0 cameras
• Not recorded1 camera

The kinds are read from the operator names mappers typed. A name is counted as private only when it plainly belongs to a business, an association or another private owner; a name the rules cannot place is counted as other; and where no operator is recorded the camera is not assumed to be anybody’s. The method page sets out how a name is sorted into a kind.

For every 10,000 residents, West University Place has 48.8 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 14,955 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 West University Place, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Bellaire, TX2 miles southwest, 36 mapped camerasShow Bellaire on the map
• Hunters Creek Village, TX5.6 miles northwest, 15 mapped camerasShow Hunters Creek Village on the map
• Piney Point Village, TX5.8 miles northwest, 14 mapped camerasShow Piney Point Village on the map
• Houston, TX5.8 miles north, 2,464 mapped cameras
• Hilshire Village, TX6.2 miles northwest, 5 mapped camerasShow Hilshire Village on the map
• Spring Valley Village, TX6.7 miles northwest, 26 mapped camerasShow Spring Valley Village on the map
• Hedwig Village, TX6.8 miles northwest, 10 mapped camerasShow Hedwig Village on the map
• Bunker Hill Village, TX6.9 miles northwest, 13 mapped camerasShow Bunker Hill Village on the map
• Stafford, TX10.1 miles southwest, 46 mapped cameras
• Missouri City, TX12.3 miles southwest, 85 mapped cameras
• Sugar Land, TX14.9 miles southwest, 192 mapped cameras
• Pasadena, TX17.3 miles east, 91 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for West University Place come from 528 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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