Cameras / California / Irvine
License plate readers in Irvine, CA
Volunteers have documented 216 automated license plate readers inside Irvine. That is the 7th-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 1.1% of the statewide total. At 3.3 per square mile it is more densely covered than 81% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Its 216 readers are more than 6 times the 33-camera median for the 329 California cities indexed here. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 101 on poles and 3 on street lamps.
Updated August 14, 2026.
216
readers documented
3.3
per square mile
7th
of 329 indexed California cities
1.1%
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 Safety175 · 81%
- Motorola Solutions22 · 10%
- Other vendors3 · 1%
- Unknown16 · 7%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 205 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Irvine Police Department (141), Regents of the University of California (3), Transportation Corridor Agencies (2). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (101), street lamp (3), post (1), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 65.6 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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