License plate readers in Meridian, ID
Volunteers have documented 84 automated license plate readers inside Meridian. No other Idaho city in this index has more, and Meridian alone accounts for 19% of every reader documented in the state. At 2.2 per square mile it is more densely covered than 65% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 35 on street lamps and 5 on poles.
Updated August 14, 2026.
84
readers documented
2.2
per square mile
1st
of 8 indexed Idaho cities
19%
of Idaho’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 Safety45 · 54%
- Other vendors39 · 46%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 78 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Lowe's (4). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- street lamp (35), pole (5)
- Coverage area
- 37.6 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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