Cameras / California / Bakersfield
License plate readers in Bakersfield, CA
Volunteers have documented 188 automated license plate readers inside Bakersfield. That is the 9th-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 1.0% of the statewide total. Its 1.3 readers per square mile spread across 150.4 square miles — thinner coverage than 63% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's.
Updated August 14, 2026.
188
readers documented
1.3
per square mile
9th
of 329 indexed California cities
1.0%
of California’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 Safety159 · 85%
- Other vendors4 · 2%
- Unknown25 · 13%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 154 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- City of Bakersfield (35), Lowe's (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (9), traffic signal (3), street lamp (1)
- Coverage area
- 150.4 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · California ALPR law
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