Cameras / California / Riverside
License plate readers in Riverside, CA
Volunteers have documented 153 automated license plate readers inside Riverside. That is the 15th-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.8% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.9 per square mile places Riverside near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's Home Improvement. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 76 on poles and 9 on street lamps.
Updated August 14, 2026.
153
readers documented
1.9
per square mile
15th
of 329 indexed California cities
0.8%
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 Safety128 · 84%
- Motorola Solutions12 · 8%
- Genetec4 · 3%
- Unknown9 · 6%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 112 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Lowe's Home Improvement (3), Riverside Police Department (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (76), street lamp (9), traffic signal (4), post (1)
- Coverage area
- 81.1 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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