Cameras / Illinois / Champaign
License plate readers in Champaign, IL
Volunteers have documented 95 automated license plate readers inside Champaign. That is the 5th-largest total among the 161 Illinois cities indexed here, and 1.4% of the statewide total. At 4.1 per square mile it is more densely covered than 86% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Its 95 readers are more than 5 times the 16-camera median for the 161 Illinois cities indexed here.
Updated August 14, 2026.
95
readers documented
4.1
per square mile
5th
of 161 indexed Illinois cities
1.4%
of Illinois’s documented total
Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Who makes them
- Flock Safety80 · 84%
- Genetec4 · 4%
- Other vendors3 · 3%
- Unknown8 · 8%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 92 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Champaign Police Department (56), Flock Safety (5), University of Illinois Police Department (2). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (28), street lamp (1), wall (1)
- Coverage area
- 23 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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