Cameras / District of Columbia / Washington
License plate readers in Washington, DC
Volunteers have documented 103 automated license plate readers inside Washington. Washington is the only District of Columbia city where volunteers have documented ten or more readers. Its density of 1.7 per square mile places Washington near the middle of the 2,395 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 26, 2026.
103
readers documented
1.7
per square mile
1st
of 1 indexed District of Columbia city · 143rd of 2,395 nationally
100%
of District of Columbia’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 Safety89 · 86%
- Motorola Solutions6 · 6%
- Genetec4 · 4%
- Leonardo/ELSAG2 · 2%
- Other vendors2 · 2%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 84 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Metro Police Department (30), The Home Depot (2), DC Metropolitan Police Department (1). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (7), mobile monitoring trailer (1)
- Coverage area
- 61.1 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: How to spot a Flock Safety camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · How state ALPR laws compare
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