Cameras / California / Lancaster
License plate readers in Lancaster, CA
Volunteers have documented 98 automated license plate readers inside Lancaster. That is the 31st-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.5% of the statewide total. Its 1.0 readers per square mile spread across 94.3 square miles — thinner coverage than 71% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Walmart, Lowe's, and The Home Depot.
Updated August 14, 2026.
98
readers documented
1.0
per square mile
31st
of 329 indexed California cities
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.
Who makes them
- Flock Safety56 · 57%
- Motorola Solutions1 · 1%
- Other vendors41 · 42%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 9 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Walmart (10), Lowe's (5), The Home Depot (3). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- street lamp (4), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 94.3 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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