Cameras / Illinois / Plainfield
License plate readers in Plainfield, IL
Volunteers have documented 42 automated license plate readers inside Plainfield. That is the 23rd-largest total among the 180 Illinois cities indexed here, and 0.5% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.6 per square mile places Plainfield near the middle of the 2,395 cities indexed nationally. Every one of them is a Flock Safety unit. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 13 on poles and 2 on street lamps.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed August 22, 2026.
42
readers documented
1.6
per square mile
23rd
of 180 indexed Illinois cities · 547th of 2,395 nationally
0.5%
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
- 40 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Plainfield Police (9). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (13), street lamp (2)
- Coverage area
- 26.1 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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