How close is the nearest license plate camera in Wauwatosa, WI?

Half of the points sampled inside Wauwatosa 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 0.7 miles of one.

• Wauwatosa: typical distance0.4 miles
• Median of the 45 places measured in Wisconsin0.6 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Wauwatosa: nine points in ten are within0.7 miles

Across the 45 places measured in Wisconsin, the median typical distance is 0.6 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Wauwatosa is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera29% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera71% of the area

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

150 feet

Middle half of the gaps

50 feet to 0.2 miles

Within 200 feet of another

27 of 53 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Wauwatosa to the nearest other one in Wauwatosa. Half of the gaps are shorter than 150 feet, and the middle half run from 50 feet to 0.2 miles. In Wauwatosa, 27 of 53 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 98% of the cameras here (52 of 53 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is southwest, with 15 cameras. Because 2 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 54 directions from 52 cameras. A direction of exactly 0 is treated as not recorded, because that value is often left on a pin nobody set.

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

In Wauwatosa, 22 of 53 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 42% of the cameras here.

• Public agency0 cameras
• Private18 cameras
• Camera company1 camera
• Other3 cameras
• Not recorded31 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, Wauwatosa has 11 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 48,387 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 Wauwatosa, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Elm Grove, WI2.8 miles west, 8 mapped camerasShow Elm Grove on the map
• Milwaukee, WI3.4 miles east, 145 mapped cameras
• West Allis, WI3.8 miles south, 37 mapped camerasShow West Allis on the map
• Brookfield, WI4.5 miles west, 13 mapped camerasShow Brookfield on the map
• Greenfield, WI7 miles south, 33 mapped camerasShow Greenfield on the map
• Glendale, WI7.1 miles northeast, 6 mapped camerasShow Glendale on the map
• Menomonee Falls, WI7.5 miles northwest, 29 mapped camerasShow Menomonee Falls on the map
• Whitefish Bay, WI7.7 miles northeast, 1 mapped cameraShow Whitefish Bay on the map

The distance and area figures for Wauwatosa come from 3,445 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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