License plate readers in Phoenix, AZ
Volunteers have documented 118 automated license plate readers inside Phoenix. That is the 4th-largest total among the 43 Arizona cities indexed here, and 4.7% of the statewide total. Its 0.2 readers per square mile spread across 518.4 square miles — thinner coverage than 99% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot and Lowe's.
Updated August 14, 2026.
118
readers documented
0.2
per square mile
4th
of 43 indexed Arizona cities
4.7%
of Arizona’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 Safety90 · 76%
- Motorola Solutions22 · 19%
- Genetec1 · 1%
- Other vendors5 · 4%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 79 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- The Home Depot (9), Lowe's (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (23), street lamp (2)
- Coverage area
- 518.4 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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.