Cameras / Illinois / Arlington Heights
License plate readers in Arlington Heights, IL
Volunteers have documented 36 automated license plate readers inside Arlington Heights. That is the 23rd-largest total among the 161 Illinois cities indexed here, and 0.5% of the statewide total. At 2.2 per square mile it is more densely covered than 64% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 94% — are Flock Safety units.
Updated August 14, 2026.
36
readers documented
2.2
per square mile
23rd
of 161 indexed Illinois cities
0.5%
of Illinois’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 Safety34 · 94%
- Other vendors2 · 6%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 23 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- How they’re mounted
- pole (1), street lamp (1)
- Coverage area
- 16.6 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · Illinois ALPR law
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