Cameras / Illinois / Springfield
License plate readers in Springfield, IL
Volunteers have documented 127 automated license plate readers inside Springfield. That is the 5th-largest total among the 182 Illinois cities indexed here, and 1.7% of the statewide total. Its density of 2.1 per square mile places Springfield near the middle of the 2,430 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 37 on street lamps.
Checked against OpenStreetMap November 14, 2026 · figures last changed October 25, 2026.
127
readers documented
2.1
per square mile
5th
of 182 indexed Illinois cities · 109th of 2,430 nationally
1.7%
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
- 124 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Flock Safety (90), Lowe's (4). All 719 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (64), street lamp (37), power pole (5), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 61.3 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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