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

Half of the points sampled inside Richmond are closer to a mapped camera than 0.5 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 1.1 miles of one.

• Richmond: typical distance0.5 miles
• Median of the 48 places measured in Virginia0.5 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Richmond: nine points in ten are within1.1 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 Richmond is level with both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera22% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera53% of the area

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

300 feet

Middle half of the gaps

100 feet to 700 feet

Within 200 feet of another

65 of 154 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Richmond to the nearest other one in Richmond. Half of the gaps are shorter than 300 feet, and the middle half run from 100 feet to 700 feet. In Richmond, 65 of 154 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 97% of the cameras here (149 of 154 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is east, with 27 cameras. Because 1 camera carries two directions and is counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 150 directions from 149 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.

In Richmond, 77 of 154 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 50% of the cameras here.

• Public agency60 cameras
• Private9 cameras
• Camera company8 cameras
• Other0 cameras
• Not recorded77 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, Richmond has 6.8 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 226,610 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 Richmond, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Manchester, VA4.4 miles southwest, 5 mapped camerasShow Manchester on the map
• Bon Air, VA5.3 miles west, 6 mapped camerasShow Bon Air on the map
• Montrose, VA5.4 miles east, 7 mapped camerasShow Montrose on the map
• Lakeside, VA5.8 miles north, 2 mapped camerasShow Lakeside on the map
• East Highland Park, VA5.9 miles northeast, 4 mapped camerasShow East Highland Park on the map
• Bensley, VA6 miles south, 4 mapped camerasShow Bensley on the map
• Dumbarton, VA6 miles north, 9 mapped camerasShow Dumbarton on the map
• Meadowbrook, VA6.9 miles south, 8 mapped camerasShow Meadowbrook on the map

The distance and area figures for Richmond come from 4,038 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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