Cameras / Illinois / Plainfield
License plate readers in Plainfield, IL
Volunteers have documented 39 automated license plate readers inside Plainfield. That is the 22nd-largest total among the 161 Illinois cities indexed here, and 0.6% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.5 per square mile places Plainfield near the middle of the 2,231 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.
Updated August 14, 2026.
39
readers documented
1.5
per square mile
22nd
of 161 indexed Illinois cities
0.6%
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 Safety39 · 100%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 37 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Plainfield Police (9). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (13), street lamp (2)
- Coverage area
- 26.1 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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