Cameras / Massachusetts / Boston
License plate readers in Boston, MA
Volunteers have documented 44 automated license plate readers inside Boston. That is the 3rd-largest total among the 27 Massachusetts cities indexed here, and 3.8% of the statewide total. Its 0.9 readers per square mile spread across 48.3 square miles — thinner coverage than 76% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Flock Safety accounts for 57%, followed by Motorola Solutions at 5%. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 12 on poles and 3 on street lamps. Not all of them watch open road: 5 were tagged in parking areas and parking entrances.
Updated August 14, 2026.
44
readers documented
0.9
per square mile
3rd
of 27 indexed Massachusetts cities
3.8%
of Massachusetts’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 Safety25 · 57%
- Motorola Solutions2 · 5%
- Other vendors9 · 20%
- Unknown8 · 18%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 36 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Boston Police (19), Massachusetts Department of Transportati (11), Boston Police Department (2). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (12), street lamp (3), wall (1), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 48.3 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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