License plate readers in Rockford, IL
Volunteers have documented 178 automated license plate readers inside Rockford. That is the 2nd-largest total among the 161 Illinois cities indexed here, and 2.6% of the statewide total. At 2.7 per square mile it is more densely covered than 74% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's.
Updated August 14, 2026.
178
readers documented
2.7
per square mile
2nd
of 161 indexed Illinois cities
2.6%
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 Safety153 · 86%
- Motorola Solutions20 · 11%
- Genetec1 · 1%
- Neology1 · 1%
- Unknown3 · 2%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 141 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Flock Safety (6), [Lowes Home Improvement (Corporate Secur (2), Lowe's (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (11), street lamp (3), traffic signal (3), stop light (2), Stop light (1)
- Coverage area
- 65.4 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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