Cameras / Illinois / Carbondale
License plate readers in Carbondale, IL
Volunteers have documented 31 automated license plate readers inside Carbondale. That is the 40th-largest total among the 183 Illinois cities indexed here, and 0.4% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.8 per square mile places Carbondale near the middle of the 2,432 cities indexed nationally. Flock Safety accounts for 65% of them.
Checked against OpenStreetMap November 13, 2026 · figures last changed October 2, 2026.
31
readers documented
1.8
per square mile
40th
of 183 indexed Illinois cities · 807th of 2,432 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
- 24 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Southern Illinois University Police Depa (3). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (1)
- Coverage area
- 17.5 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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