Cameras / Illinois / Vernon Hills
License plate readers in Vernon Hills, IL
Volunteers have documented 21 automated license plate readers inside Vernon Hills. That is the 61st-largest total among the 161 Illinois cities indexed here, and 0.3% 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. Nearly all of them — 95% — are Flock Safety units. Every mount volunteers recorded here is the same kind: poles.
Updated August 14, 2026.
21
readers documented
2.7
per square mile
61st
of 161 indexed Illinois cities
0.3%
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 Safety20 · 95%
- Unknown1 · 5%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 19 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Mellody Farms (1), Vernon Hills Police Department (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (10)
- Coverage area
- 7.7 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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