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

Half of the points sampled inside Virginia Beach are closer to a mapped camera than 1.4 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 4.8 miles of one.

• Virginia Beach: typical distance1.4 miles
• Median of the 48 places measured in Virginia0.5 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Virginia Beach: nine points in ten are within4.8 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 Virginia Beach is longer than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera8% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera22% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Virginia Beach: 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

450 feet

Middle half of the gaps

100 feet to 0.2 miles

Within 200 feet of another

78 of 250 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Virginia Beach to the nearest other one in Virginia Beach. Half of the gaps are shorter than 450 feet, and the middle half run from 100 feet to 0.2 miles. In Virginia Beach, 78 of 250 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 91% of the cameras here (227 of 250 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is northeast, with 39 cameras. Because 6 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 233 directions from 227 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 22 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, Virginia Beach has 5.4 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 459,470 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 Virginia Beach, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Chesapeake, VA14.8 miles west, 88 mapped camerasShow Chesapeake on the map
• Norfolk, VA16.2 miles northwest, 246 mapped cameras
• Moyock, NC16.6 miles southwest, 3 mapped camerasShow Moyock on the map
• Portsmouth, VA17.4 miles northwest, 134 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Virginia Beach come from 19,873 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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