Cameras / Indiana / West Lafayette
License plate readers in West Lafayette, IN
Volunteers have documented 14 automated license plate readers inside West Lafayette. That is the 43rd-largest total among the 60 Indiana cities indexed here, and 0.4% of the statewide total. Its 1.0 readers per square mile spread across 13.7 square miles — thinner coverage than 74% of the 2,400 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Launch Apartments.
Checked against OpenStreetMap October 9, 2026 · figures last changed September 30, 2026.
14
readers documented
1.0
per square mile
43rd
of 60 indexed Indiana cities · 1,695th of 2,400 nationally
0.4%
of Indiana’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
- 13 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Launch Apartments (5), West Lafayette Police Department (2). All 725 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (2), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 13.7 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
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