License plate readers in Tampa, FL
Volunteers have documented 100 automated license plate readers inside Tampa. That is the 10th-largest total among the 169 Florida cities indexed here, and 1.1% of the statewide total. Its 0.9 readers per square mile spread across 114.5 square miles — thinner coverage than 78% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot.
Updated August 14, 2026.
100
readers documented
0.9
per square mile
10th
of 169 indexed Florida cities
1.1%
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 Safety85 · 85%
- Motorola Solutions6 · 6%
- Genetec8 · 8%
- Other vendors1 · 1%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 68 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- The Home Depot (3). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (12), mobile (1)
- Coverage area
- 114.5 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
These locations were documented in the field by OpenStreetMap volunteers and refresh automatically every six hours. They are evidence of where cameras have been seen — not a complete or official inventory, and cameras may have been added or removed since documentation. Corrections happen upstream: edit OpenStreetMap and this page will update. Read more in our methodology.