How close is the nearest license plate camera in Alexandria, VA?

Half of the points sampled inside Alexandria 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 0.5 miles of one.

• Alexandria: typical distance0.3 miles
• Median of the 48 places measured in Virginia0.5 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Alexandria: nine points in ten are within0.5 miles

Across the 48 places measured in Virginia, the median typical distance is 0.5 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Alexandria is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera43% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera88% of the area

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

600 feet

Middle half of the gaps

150 feet to 0.2 miles

Within 200 feet of another

22 of 75 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Alexandria to the nearest other one in Alexandria. Half of the gaps are shorter than 600 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 0.2 miles. In Alexandria, 22 of 75 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 92% of the cameras here (69 of 75 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, 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 4 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, Alexandria has 4.7 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 159,467 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 Alexandria, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Huntington, VA2 miles south, 17 mapped camerasShow Huntington on the map
• Rose Hill, VA2.5 miles southwest, 8 mapped camerasShow Rose Hill on the map
• Bailey's Crossroads, VA3.1 miles northwest, 13 mapped camerasShow Bailey's Crossroads on the map
• Belle Haven, VA3.2 miles southeast, 6 mapped camerasShow Belle Haven on the map
• Lincolnia, VA3.7 miles west, 8 mapped camerasShow Lincolnia on the map
• Groveton, VA4.1 miles south, 5 mapped camerasShow Groveton on the map
• Arlington, VA4.2 miles north, 74 mapped cameras
• Forest Heights, MD4.5 miles east, 5 mapped camerasShow Forest Heights on the map

The distance and area figures for Alexandria come from 3,973 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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