Cameras / MA
License plate readers in Massachusetts
1,203 cameras have been documented in Massachusetts. That is the 27th-largest documented total of the 52 states and territories with any readers on record, and 0.8% of the 143,314 documented nationwide. Quincy has the most of any city in the state, with 55 — 4.6% of the total. Flock Safety accounts for the largest share of the 644 readers counted in the state's indexed cities, at 84%. 644 of them stand in the 29 cities listed below. 559 more are outside those city limits — along highways, in smaller towns, and in unincorporated areas.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed September 29, 2026.
1,203
cameras documented statewide
27th
most-documented of 52 states and territories
644
in listed cities
559
outside city limits
Who makes them
Manufacturer, where volunteers recorded it, for cameras in the listed cities.
- Flock Safety539
- Motorola Solutions19
- Genetec6
- Neology4
- Other vendors13
- Unknown63
By city
| City | Cameras | Per square mile |
|---|---|---|
| Quincy | 55 | 3.32 |
| Springfield | 53 | 1.66 |
| Boston | 45 | 0.93 |
| Methuen | 43 | 1.94 |
| Lowell | 42 | 3.09 |
| Weymouth Town | 33 | 1.97 |
| Fall River | 27 | 0.82 |
| Braintree Town | 24 | 1.74 |
| Worcester | 23 | 0.62 |
| Lynn | 23 | 2.14 |
| Chicopee | 23 | 1.00 |
| Lawrence | 21 | 3.03 |
| Haverhill | 20 | 0.61 |
| Taunton | 18 | 0.39 |
| Saugus | 17 | 1.58 |
| Revere | 16 | 2.81 |
| Norwood | 16 | 1.54 |
| Medford | 14 | 1.73 |
| Chelsea | 14 | 6.31 |
| Milford | 14 | 1.38 |
| Woburn | 14 | 1.11 |
| Westfield | 12 | 0.26 |
| Somerville | 12 | 2.91 |
| Milton | 12 | 0.92 |
| Holyoke | 12 | 0.57 |
| Bridgewater Town | 11 | 0.40 |
| Randolph Town | 10 | 1.02 |
| Malden | 10 | 1.98 |
| North Attleborough Town | 10 | 0.53 |
Camera locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). City boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Counts reflect volunteer documentation, not an official census; cities appear once ten cameras are documented.
Contract decisions in Massachusetts
One decision here is in our tracker of communities that have stepped back from Flock Safety. A decision date is not a removal date: cameras stay in the record above until a volunteer edits OpenStreetMap.
- Cambridge canceled its Flock Safety contract · Dec 2025
Explore this data further
- Who operates Massachusetts’s cameras — police, HOAs, and retailers →
- Every ALPR manufacturer compared nationally →
- Download this data as CSV or GeoJSON →
- How the national count is measured →
- What a Flock camera is and how it works →
- What the cameras look like, and how to spot one →
- What residents can and cannot opt out of →
- How state license plate reader laws compare →
Massachusetts ranks 27th of 52 by documented cameras. Oklahoma (1,492) ranks just above, and Mississippi (1,146) just below.