Cameras / California / Hawthorne
License plate readers in Hawthorne, CA
Volunteers have documented 21 automated license plate readers inside Hawthorne. That is the 245th-largest total among the 357 California cities indexed here, and 0.1% of the statewide total. At 3.5 per square mile it is more densely covered than 78% of the 2,432 US cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's and The Home Depot.
Checked against OpenStreetMap November 13, 2026 · figures last changed October 8, 2026.
21
readers documented
3.5
per square mile
245th
of 357 indexed California cities · 1,192nd of 2,432 nationally
0.1%
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 Safety13 · 62%
- Motorola Solutions5 · 24%
- Leonardo/ELSAG1 · 5%
- Neology1 · 5%
- Other vendors1 · 5%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 17 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Lowe's (1), The Home Depot (1). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- traffic signal (3), pole (2), wall (1)
- Coverage area
- 6.1 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: How to spot a Flock Safety camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · California's ALPR statute
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