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License plate readers in Hawthorne, CA

Volunteers have documented 18 automated license plate readers inside Hawthorne. That is the 250th-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.1% of the statewide total. At 3.0 per square mile it is more densely covered than 77% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's and The Home Depot.

Updated August 14, 2026.

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  • 18

    readers documented

  • 3.0

    per square mile

  • 250th

    of 329 indexed California cities

  • 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

What volunteers recorded

Monitoring public roads
16 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
Recorded operators
Lowe's (1), The Home Depot (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
How they’re mounted
traffic signal (1), pole (1)
Coverage area
6.1 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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