Cameras / California / Mission Viejo
License plate readers in Mission Viejo, CA
Volunteers have documented 46 automated license plate readers inside Mission Viejo. That is the 120th-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.2% of the statewide total. At 2.6 per square mile it is more densely covered than 72% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 98% — are Flock Safety units.
Updated August 14, 2026.
46
readers documented
2.6
per square mile
120th
of 329 indexed California cities
0.2%
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 Safety45 · 98%
- Unknown1 · 2%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 31 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Orange County Sheriff Dept (1), Orange County Sheriff (1), Mission Viejo (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (5), traffic signal (2), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 17.7 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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