License plate readers in Denver, CO
Volunteers have documented 231 automated license plate readers inside Denver. That is the 2nd-largest total among the 43 Colorado cities indexed here, and 8.9% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.5 per square mile places Denver near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 58 on poles and 16 on traffic signals.
Updated August 14, 2026.
231
readers documented
1.5
per square mile
2nd
of 43 indexed Colorado cities
8.9%
of Colorado’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 Safety191 · 83%
- Motorola Solutions1 · 0%
- Neology9 · 4%
- Other vendors30 · 13%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 205 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Denver Police Department (12), Flock Safety (6), The Home Depot (4). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (58), traffic signal (16), street lamp (1), gantry (1), post (1)
- Coverage area
- 153.1 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
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