Outdoor sidewalk ATMs - common?

Factual Questions
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In answer to the OP:
I’ve viewed security footage from inside and outside of banks and non-bank-attached ATMs all across the country, and spent time working for an ATM maker.
Here’s a short tutorial on ATMs found in the US.
ATMs are manufactured in 4 primary configurations:
1- Drive-Up (Consumer in car operates ATM from driver’s seat. ATM is built into wall of building. [1] )
2- Island Drive-Up ATM (Consumer in car operates ATM from driver’s seat. ATM is set into a concrete island placed between lanes of vehicle traffic in a parking lot. The island is usually covered by a canopy of some kind for the convenience of the consumer and health of the ATM. [2])
3- Walk-Up (Consumer on foot, usually sidewalk, operates ATM. ATM is built into wall of building. [3])
4- Retail (Consumer on foot, indoors, operates ATM. ATM is bolted into concrete floor beneath ATM if manufacturer’s directions have been followed. This was the variety stolen in the movie ‘Barber Shop’. They’re the only kind the guys in the movie could have handled without a forklift. [4])
An examples of each of the above 4 types is linked in the Appendix.

Incidentally, sometimes walk-up ATMs are installed in “ATM Kiosks” which are small rooms set into the front of a bank or other building that one must swipe an ATM or similar card in order to enter.

All 3 varieties of ATM can be found in pretty much every state of the union.
Now, in some cases, there’s a building constructed just to house a drive-up or walk-up ATM. This will frequently consist of a door, an overhang to shield the ATM’s front from the elements, an AC unit and a heater, along with a small area in the building behind the ATM for service technicians or armored car staff to work in.

Appendix
[1] http://www.diebold.com/solutions/atms/opteva/models_740.htm
[2] http://www.diebold.com/solutions/atms/opteva/models_750.htm
[3] http://www.diebold.com/solutions/atms/opteva/models_562.htm
[4] http://www.diebold.com/solutions/atms/opteva/models_500e.htm

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I don’t see these at all in the Detroit area.

which totally messed me up when I recently went to Nashville; it took me a while to find an ATM which wasn’t just out there on the sidewalk. Ain’t no way I was using one of those!

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Oops. Missed the edit window, meant to add:

OP:
The kind of situations where you see a walk-up ATM that is not in an ATM kiosk are not exactly rare, but they are much less common than drive-up or retail ATMs. I can’t really tell you if walk-up ATMs are more likely to be found facing sidewalks or ATM kiosks. I will point out that an ATM kiosk isn’t a helpful security measure so much as it serves to give you a place where you can take your hands out of your gloves or pockets to operate the ATM without freezing your fingers. The card-reader lock on the ATM kiosk is there to keep the homeless from sleeping in there.

On edit:
Jz, I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that the dividing line for ATMs being in kiosks or not is pretty much consistent with the temperature.