Cameras / Illinois / Vernon Hills
License plate readers in Vernon Hills, IL
Volunteers have documented 24 automated license plate readers inside Vernon Hills. That is the 58th-largest total among the 182 Illinois cities indexed here, and 0.3% of the statewide total. At 3.1 per square mile it is more densely covered than 75% of the 2,430 US cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 96% — are Flock Safety units.
Checked against OpenStreetMap November 14, 2026 · figures last changed November 3, 2026.
24
readers documented
3.1
per square mile
58th
of 182 indexed Illinois cities · 1,051st of 2,430 nationally
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.
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 22 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Mellody Farms (1), Vernon Hills Police Department (1). All 719 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (10), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 7.7 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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