Cameras / Iowa / Council Bluffs
License plate readers in Council Bluffs, IA
Volunteers have documented 24 automated license plate readers inside Council Bluffs. That is the 10th-largest total among the 20 Iowa cities indexed here, and 3.0% of the statewide total. Its 0.6 readers per square mile spread across 43 square miles — thinner coverage than 90% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Every one of them is a Flock Safety unit.
Updated August 14, 2026.
24
readers documented
0.6
per square mile
10th
of 20 indexed Iowa cities
3.0%
of Iowa’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 Safety24 · 100%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 18 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Coverage area
- 43 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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