License plate readers in Waukegan, IL
Volunteers have documented 51 automated license plate readers inside Waukegan. That is the 14th-largest total among the 161 Illinois cities indexed here, and 0.8% of the statewide total. At 2.1 per square mile it is more densely covered than 63% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Every one of them is a Flock Safety unit.
Updated August 14, 2026.
51
readers documented
2.1
per square mile
14th
of 161 indexed Illinois cities
0.8%
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 Safety51 · 100%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 44 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Flock Safety (13). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (14)
- Coverage area
- 24.3 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · Illinois ALPR law
These locations were documented in the field by OpenStreetMap volunteers and refresh automatically every six hours. They are evidence of where cameras have been seen — not a complete or official inventory, and cameras may have been added or removed since documentation. Corrections happen upstream: edit OpenStreetMap and this page will update. Read more in our methodology.