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License plate readers in Niles, IL

Volunteers have documented 28 automated license plate readers inside Niles. That is the 39th-largest total among the 161 Illinois cities indexed here, and 0.4% of the statewide total. At 4.8 per square mile it is more densely covered than 89% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Every one of them is a Flock Safety unit.

Updated August 14, 2026.

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  • 28

    readers documented

  • 4.8

    per square mile

  • 39th

    of 161 indexed Illinois cities

  • 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.

Who makes them

What volunteers recorded

Monitoring public roads
25 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
Recorded operators
Flock Safety (13), [Niles Police Department] (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
How they’re mounted
pole (15), traffic signal (1)
Coverage area
5.8 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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