Cameras / Illinois / Mount Prospect
License plate readers in Mount Prospect, IL
Volunteers have documented 21 automated license plate readers inside Mount Prospect. That is the 61st-largest total among the 161 Illinois cities indexed here, and 0.3% of the statewide total. At 2.0 per square mile it is more densely covered than 60% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Every one of them is a Flock Safety unit.
Updated August 14, 2026.
21
readers documented
2.0
per square mile
61st
of 161 indexed Illinois cities
0.3%
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 Safety21 · 100%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 18 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- How they’re mounted
- street lamp (2), pole (2)
- Coverage area
- 10.7 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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