Cameras / Florida / Gainesville
License plate readers in Gainesville, FL
Volunteers have documented 138 automated license plate readers inside Gainesville. That is the 4th-largest total among the 172 Florida cities indexed here, and 1.4% of the statewide total. At 2.2 per square mile it is more densely covered than 61% of the 2,395 US cities indexed nationally. Its 138 readers are more than 6 times the 22-camera median for the 172 Florida cities indexed here.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed September 19, 2026.
138
readers documented
2.2
per square mile
4th
of 172 indexed Florida cities · 85th of 2,395 nationally
1.4%
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 Safety30 · 22%
- Motorola Solutions10 · 7%
- Other vendors91 · 66%
- Unknown7 · 5%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 128 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- University of Florida (41), UoF (10), University of Fla. (6). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (27), street light (1), post (1)
- Coverage area
- 64 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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