Average distance from point to polygon

[Ruben]

Hello,

I have a polygon layer of all the municipalities in the Netherlands and a point layer of all restaurants of a specific franchise. I want to calculate the average Euclidean distance to a restaurant for every single municipality. So every municipality would get a value of X meters which indicates the average Euclidean distance that an individual would have to travel to reach a restaurant when residing in the specific municipality. How would I go about doing this?

Thanks in advance,

Ruben

[DavidPike · Accepted solution]

I would probably generate evenly dispersed points within each municipality (e.g. every 100m) and then a spatial join to add the munipality name or ID to the points. 

Then generate a near table Generate Near Table (Analysis)—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation or use Near analysis  to find the distance to the closest location per point.  I would make sure that the find only closest feature parameter is set so that you don't generate a gigantic table.

for each set of municipality points just calculate the median value.

This of course also assumes that population is evenly distributed within the municipality.