Cameras / Alabama / Birmingham
License plate readers in Birmingham, AL
Volunteers have documented 288 automated license plate readers inside Birmingham. No other Alabama city in this index has more, and Birmingham alone accounts for 10.0% of every reader documented in the state. Its density of 2.0 per square mile places Birmingham near the middle of the 2,395 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed September 29, 2026.
288
readers documented
2.0
per square mile
1st
of 53 indexed Alabama cities · 26th of 2,395 nationally
10.0%
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
- Flock Safety212 · 74%
- Motorola Solutions3 · 1%
- Genetec36 · 13%
- Neology3 · 1%
- Other vendors33 · 11%
- Unknown1 · 0%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 213 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- The Home Depot (4). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (34), street lamp (8), power pole (1), traffic signal (1), wall (1)
- Coverage area
- 146.9 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
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