License plate readers in Sycamore, IL
Volunteers have documented 27 automated license plate readers inside Sycamore. That is the 48th-largest total among the 182 Illinois cities indexed here, and 0.4% of the statewide total. At 2.7 per square mile it is more densely covered than 69% of the 2,430 US cities indexed nationally. Every one of them is a Flock Safety unit.
Checked against OpenStreetMap November 14, 2026 · figures last changed November 5, 2026.
27
readers documented
2.7
per square mile
48th
of 182 indexed Illinois cities · 927th of 2,430 nationally
0.4%
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
- 27 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- How they’re mounted
- pole (3)
- Coverage area
- 10.1 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
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