Cameras / California / Mountain View
License plate readers in Mountain View, CA
Volunteers have documented 11 automated license plate readers inside Mountain View. That is the 314th-largest total among the 347 California cities indexed here, and 0.1% of the statewide total. Its 0.9 readers per square mile spread across 12 square miles — thinner coverage than 78% of the 2,331 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Prometheus Apartments.
Checked against OpenStreetMap August 31, 2026 · figures last changed August 31, 2026.
11
readers documented
0.9
per square mile
314th
of 347 indexed California cities · 2,008th of 2,331 nationally
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.
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 11 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Prometheus Apartments (2), Los Altos Police Department (1). All 710 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- wall (3), pole (1)
- Coverage area
- 12 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
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