Cameras / Illinois / Springfield
License plate readers in Springfield, IL
Volunteers have documented 121 automated license plate readers inside Springfield. That is the 4th-largest total among the 161 Illinois cities indexed here, and 1.8% 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. Nearly all of them — 98% — are Flock Safety units. Volunteers also recorded non-government operators here, including Lowe's. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 64 on poles and 34 on street lamps.
Updated August 14, 2026.
121
readers documented
2.0
per square mile
4th
of 161 indexed Illinois cities
1.8%
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 Safety119 · 98%
- Unknown2 · 2%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 118 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Flock Safety (90), Lowe's (4). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (64), street lamp (34), power pole (4), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 61.3 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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