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Cameras / Alabama / Birmingham

License plate readers in Birmingham, AL

Volunteers have documented 222 automated license plate readers inside Birmingham. No other Alabama city in this index has more, and Birmingham alone accounts for 8.8% of every reader documented in the state. Its density of 1.5 per square mile places Birmingham near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot.

Updated August 14, 2026.

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  • 222

    readers documented

  • 1.5

    per square mile

  • 1st

    of 50 indexed Alabama cities

  • 8.8%

    of Alabama’s documented total

Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Who makes them

What volunteers recorded

Monitoring public roads
145 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
Recorded operators
The Home Depot (4). Who operates these cameras nationally →
How they’re mounted
pole (31), street lamp (7), power pole (1)
Coverage area
146.9 square miles of land inside city limits.

Nearby

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These locations were documented in the field by OpenStreetMap volunteers and refresh automatically every six hours. They are evidence of where cameras have been seen — not a complete or official inventory, and cameras may have been added or removed since documentation. Corrections happen upstream: edit OpenStreetMap and this page will update. Read more in our methodology.