License plate readers in Lawrence, KS
Volunteers have documented 44 automated license plate readers inside Lawrence. That is the 8th-largest total among the 26 Kansas cities indexed here, and 2.2% of the statewide total. Its 1.3 readers per square mile spread across 34.6 square miles — thinner coverage than 62% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. No manufacturer was recorded for 68% of them, so the vendor mix here is less certain than the count. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 33 on poles and 5 on traffic signals.
Updated August 14, 2026.
44
readers documented
1.3
per square mile
8th
of 26 indexed Kansas cities
2.2%
of Kansas’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 Safety5 · 11%
- Other vendors9 · 20%
- Unknown30 · 68%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 13 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Lawrence Police Department (29). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (33), traffic signal (5)
- Coverage area
- 34.6 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
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