License plate readers in Columbia, IL
Volunteers have documented 11 automated license plate readers inside Columbia. That is the 138th-largest total among the 161 Illinois cities indexed here, and 0.2% of the statewide total. Its 1.0 readers per square mile spread across 10.6 square miles — thinner coverage than 71% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 91% — are Motorola Solutions units.
Updated August 14, 2026.
11
readers documented
1.0
per square mile
138th
of 161 indexed Illinois cities
0.2%
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
- Motorola Solutions10 · 91%
- Unknown1 · 9%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 1 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Coverage area
- 10.6 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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