Cameras / Florida / Gainesville
License plate readers in Gainesville, FL
Volunteers have documented 159 automated license plate readers inside Gainesville. That is the 3rd-largest total among the 169 Florida cities indexed here, and 1.8% of the statewide total. At 2.5 per square mile it is more densely covered than 70% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Its 159 readers are more than 7 times the 20-camera median for the 169 Florida cities indexed here.
Updated August 14, 2026.
159
readers documented
2.5
per square mile
3rd
of 169 indexed Florida cities
1.8%
of Florida’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 Safety31 · 19%
- Motorola Solutions8 · 5%
- Other vendors73 · 46%
- Unknown47 · 30%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 118 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- University of Fla. (7), UoF (4), University of Florida (2). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (27), street light (1), post (1)
- Coverage area
- 64 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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