License plate readers in Columbus, GA
Volunteers have documented 181 automated license plate readers inside Columbus. That is the 4th-largest total among the 115 Georgia cities indexed here, and 2.0% of the statewide total. Its 0.8 readers per square mile spread across 216.5 square miles — thinner coverage than 80% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Its 181 readers are more than 8 times the 22-camera median for the 115 Georgia cities indexed here. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 102 on poles and 25 on street lamps.
Updated August 14, 2026.
181
readers documented
0.8
per square mile
4th
of 115 indexed Georgia cities
2.0%
of Georgia’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 Safety96 · 53%
- Motorola Solutions1 · 1%
- Leonardo/ELSAG2 · 1%
- Other vendors2 · 1%
- Unknown80 · 44%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 152 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Flock Safety (50). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (102), street lamp (25)
- Coverage area
- 216.5 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · Georgia ALPR law
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.