How close is the nearest license plate camera in Lakewood, WA?

Half of the points sampled inside Lakewood 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 mile of one.

• Lakewood: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 62 places measured in Washington0.5 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Lakewood: nine points in ten are within1 mile

Across the 62 places measured in Washington, the median typical distance is 0.5 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Lakewood is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera26% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera56% of the area

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

400 feet

Middle half of the gaps

100 feet to 0.3 miles

Within 200 feet of another

27 of 54 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Lakewood to the nearest other one in Lakewood. Half of the gaps are shorter than 400 feet, and the middle half run from 100 feet to 0.3 miles. In Lakewood, 27 of 54 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 96% of the cameras here (52 of 54 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is northwest, with 12 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 1 camera here.

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

In Lakewood, 42 of 54 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 78% of the cameras here.

• Public agency40 cameras
• Private0 cameras
• Camera company2 cameras
• Other0 cameras
• Not recorded12 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, Lakewood has 8.5 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 63,612 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 Lakewood, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• McChord AFB, WA2.7 miles southeast, 1 mapped cameraShow McChord AFB on the map
• Parkland, WA4.6 miles east, 5 mapped camerasShow Parkland on the map
• Fort Lewis, WA5 miles south, 1 mapped cameraShow Fort Lewis on the map
• Tacoma, WA6.6 miles northeast, 22 mapped camerasShow Tacoma on the map
• Waller, WA8 miles east, 1 mapped cameraShow Waller on the map
• Wollochet, WA8.6 miles north, 10 mapped camerasShow Wollochet on the map
• Ruston, WA9.4 miles north, 9 mapped camerasShow Ruston on the map
• Fife, WA9.7 miles northeast, 3 mapped camerasShow Fife on the map
• Puyallup, WA11.3 miles east, 42 mapped cameras
• Orting, WA15.7 miles east, 41 mapped cameras
• Tukwila, WA24.7 miles northeast, 47 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Lakewood come from 4,875 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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