Cameras / Illinois / Arlington Heights
License plate readers in Arlington Heights, IL
Volunteers have documented 34 automated license plate readers inside Arlington Heights. That is the 33rd-largest total among the 180 Illinois cities indexed here, and 0.4% of the statewide total. Its density of 2.0 per square mile places Arlington Heights near the middle of the 2,395 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 94% — are Flock Safety units.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 28, 2026 · figures last changed August 28, 2026.
34
readers documented
2.0
per square mile
33rd
of 180 indexed Illinois cities · 709th of 2,395 nationally
0.4%
of Illinois’s documented total
Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 22 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: How to spot a Flock Safety camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · Illinois's ALPR statute
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