License plate readers in Sterling, IL
Volunteers have documented 10 automated license plate readers inside Sterling. That is the 149th-largest total among the 161 Illinois cities indexed here, and 0.1% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.7 per square mile places Sterling near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Every one of them is a Flock Safety unit.
Updated August 14, 2026.
10
readers documented
1.7
per square mile
149th
of 161 indexed Illinois cities
0.1%
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 Safety10 · 100%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 9 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- How they’re mounted
- pole (3), street lamp (1)
- Coverage area
- 5.9 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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