Cameras / Massachusetts / Methuen
License plate readers in Methuen, MA
Volunteers have documented 43 automated license plate readers inside Methuen. That is the 4th-largest total among the 29 Massachusetts cities indexed here, and 3.6% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.9 per square mile places Methuen near the middle of the 2,395 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed September 24, 2026.
43
readers documented
1.9
per square mile
4th
of 29 indexed Massachusetts cities · 537th of 2,395 nationally
3.6%
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 Safety21 · 49%
- Motorola Solutions1 · 2%
- Genetec1 · 2%
- Unknown20 · 47%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 40 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Methuen Police (29), [Methuen Police] (7), The Home Depot (4). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (5), post (1)
- Coverage area
- 22.2 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
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