License plate readers in Tucson, AZ
Volunteers have documented 267 automated license plate readers inside Tucson. No other Arizona city in this index has more, and Tucson alone accounts for 11% of every reader documented in the state. Its 1.1 readers per square mile spread across 242.9 square miles — thinner coverage than 69% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Where a mount was recorded, most are fixed to existing street lamps rather than dedicated poles.
Updated August 14, 2026.
267
readers documented
1.1
per square mile
1st
of 43 indexed Arizona cities
11%
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 Safety148 · 55%
- Motorola Solutions24 · 9%
- Genetec5 · 2%
- Leonardo/ELSAG2 · 1%
- Other vendors67 · 25%
- Unknown21 · 8%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 155 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Tucson Police Department (55), Tucson_Police_Department (4), unknown (3). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- street lamp (50), pole (26), trailer (1), Pole (1), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 242.9 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.