Cameras / California / Hayward
License plate readers in Hayward, CA
Volunteers have documented 88 automated license plate readers inside Hayward. That is the 36th-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.4% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.9 per square mile places Hayward near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 97% — are Flock Safety units.
Updated August 14, 2026.
88
readers documented
1.9
per square mile
36th
of 329 indexed California cities
0.4%
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 Safety85 · 97%
- Other vendors3 · 3%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 86 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- California Highway Patrol (20), California Highway Patrol (CHP) (2), Union City Police Department (2). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (11), street lamp (1), Costco parking lot (1)
- Coverage area
- 45.8 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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