Cameras / Massachusetts / Medford
License plate readers in Medford, MA
Volunteers have documented 14 automated license plate readers inside Medford. That is the 18th-largest total among the 29 Massachusetts cities indexed here, and 1.2% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.7 per square mile places Medford near the middle of the 2,395 cities indexed nationally. No manufacturer was recorded for 86% of them, so the vendor mix here is less certain than the count. Every mount volunteers recorded here is the same kind: walls.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed September 29, 2026.
14
readers documented
1.7
per square mile
18th
of 29 indexed Massachusetts cities · 1,688th of 2,395 nationally
1.2%
of Massachusetts’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
- 2 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Tufts University (12). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- wall (12)
- Coverage area
- 8.1 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
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