How close is the nearest license plate camera in Salt Lake City, UT?

Half of the points sampled inside Salt Lake City are closer to a mapped camera than 1.3 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 3.8 miles of one.

• Salt Lake City: typical distance1.3 miles
• Median of the 29 places measured in Utah0.5 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Salt Lake City: nine points in ten are within3.8 miles

Across the 29 places measured in Utah, the median typical distance is 0.5 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Salt Lake City is longer than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera10% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera23% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Salt Lake City: 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

850 feet

Middle half of the gaps

400 feet to 0.4 miles

Within 200 feet of another

17 of 86 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Salt Lake City to the nearest other one in Salt Lake City. Half of the gaps are shorter than 850 feet, and the middle half run from 400 feet to 0.4 miles. In Salt Lake City, 17 of 86 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 88% of the cameras here (76 of 86 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is southeast, with 18 cameras. Because 4 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 80 directions from 76 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, Salt Lake City has 4.3 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 199,723 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 Salt Lake City, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• North Salt Lake, UT4.7 miles north, 13 mapped camerasShow North Salt Lake on the map
• South Salt Lake, UT5.2 miles south, 7 mapped camerasShow South Salt Lake on the map
• Woods Cross, UT6.7 miles north, 1 mapped cameraShow Woods Cross on the map
• Bountiful, UT7.4 miles northeast, 5 mapped camerasShow Bountiful on the map
• West Valley City, UT7.5 miles southwest, 53 mapped camerasShow West Valley City on the map
• Millcreek, UT8.1 miles southeast, 16 mapped camerasShow Millcreek on the map
• Taylorsville, UT8.4 miles south, 37 mapped camerasShow Taylorsville on the map
• West Bountiful, UT8.5 miles north, 3 mapped camerasShow West Bountiful on the map

The distance and area figures for Salt Lake City come from 7,236 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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