Cameras / California / Daly City
License plate readers in Daly City, CA
Volunteers have documented 106 automated license plate readers inside Daly City. That is the 31st-largest total among the 357 California cities indexed here, and 0.5% of the statewide total. At 13.9 readers per square mile, Daly City sits in the most densely covered 5% of the 2,430 US cities indexed nationally. Where a mount was recorded, most are fixed to existing street lamps rather than dedicated poles.
Checked against OpenStreetMap November 14, 2026 · figures last changed November 11, 2026.
106
readers documented
13.9
per square mile
31st
of 357 indexed California cities · 143rd of 2,430 nationally
0.5%
of California’s documented total
Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 77 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Daly City Police Department (33), Brisbane Police Department (1), Colma Police Department (1). All 719 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- street lamp (24), pole (11), traffic signal (3)
- Coverage area
- 7.6 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
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