License plate readers in Wheaton, IL
Volunteers have documented 64 automated license plate readers inside Wheaton. That is the 9th-largest total among the 161 Illinois cities indexed here, and 0.9% of the statewide total. At 5.7 per square mile it is more densely covered than 92% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 97% — are Flock Safety units. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 31 on poles and 8 on street lamps.
Updated August 14, 2026.
64
readers documented
5.7
per square mile
9th
of 161 indexed Illinois cities
0.9%
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 Safety62 · 97%
- Unknown2 · 3%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 40 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Flock Safety (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (31), street lamp (8), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 11.3 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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