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

Half of the points sampled inside Portsmouth are closer to a mapped camera than 0.4 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 1.3 miles of one.

• Portsmouth: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 48 places measured in Virginia0.5 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Portsmouth: nine points in ten are within1.3 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 Portsmouth is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera33% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera66% of the area

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

200 feet to 950 feet

Within 200 feet of another

33 of 134 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Portsmouth to the nearest other one in Portsmouth. Half of the gaps are shorter than 600 feet, and the middle half run from 200 feet to 950 feet. In Portsmouth, 33 of 134 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 83% of the cameras here (111 of 134 cameras).

The most common recorded directions are south and southwest, with 23 cameras each. Because 8 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 119 directions from 111 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 7 cameras here.

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

In Portsmouth, 64 of 134 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 48% of the cameras here.

• Public agency60 cameras
• Private4 cameras
• Camera company0 cameras
• Other0 cameras
• Not recorded70 cameras

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, Portsmouth has 13.7 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 97,915 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 Portsmouth, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Norfolk, VA5.1 miles northeast, 246 mapped cameras
• Chesapeake, VA11.6 miles south, 88 mapped camerasShow Chesapeake on the map
• Carrollton, VA12.7 miles northwest, 3 mapped camerasShow Carrollton on the map
• Hampton, VA14.7 miles north, 158 mapped cameras
• Virginia Beach, VA17.4 miles southeast, 250 mapped cameras
• Bethel Manor, VA18.2 miles north, 5 mapped camerasShow Bethel Manor on the map
• Smithfield, VA18.4 miles northwest, 17 mapped camerasShow Smithfield on the map
• Poquoson, VA19.8 miles north, 3 mapped camerasShow Poquoson on the map

The distance and area figures for Portsmouth come from 9,224 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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