Cameras / California / San Diego
License plate readers in San Diego, CA
Volunteers have documented 733 automated license plate readers inside San Diego. No other California city in this index has more, and San Diego alone accounts for 3.5% of every reader documented in the state. At 2.3 per square mile it is more densely covered than 62% of the 2,395 US cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot and Lowe's. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 417 on street lamps and 156 on traffic signals.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 28, 2026 · figures last changed September 27, 2026.
733
readers documented
2.3
per square mile
1st
of 353 indexed California cities · 5th of 2,395 nationally
3.5%
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 Safety100 · 14%
- Motorola Solutions1 · 0%
- Genetec2 · 0%
- Leonardo/ELSAG1 · 0%
- Other vendors603 · 82%
- Unknown26 · 4%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 148 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- San Diego Police Department (591), The Home Depot (8), Lowe's (6). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- street lamp (417), traffic signal (156), pole (15)
- Coverage area
- 326 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: How to spot a Flock Safety camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · California's ALPR statute
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