License plate readers in Newark, DE
Volunteers have documented 28 automated license plate readers inside Newark. That is the 4th-largest total among the 6 Delaware cities indexed here, and 5.8% of the statewide total. At 3.0 per square mile it is more densely covered than 74% of the 2,395 US cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed September 28, 2026.
28
readers documented
3.0
per square mile
4th
of 6 indexed Delaware cities · 877th of 2,395 nationally
5.8%
of Delaware’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 Safety22 · 79%
- Motorola Solutions2 · 7%
- Other vendors1 · 4%
- Unknown3 · 11%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 28 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Newark Police Department (2), Newark Police (1), The Home Depot (1). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (11), street lamp (1), ceiling (1), gantry (1), post (1)
- Coverage area
- 9.5 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
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