Cameras / Massachusetts / Springfield
License plate readers in Springfield, MA
Volunteers have documented 47 automated license plate readers inside Springfield. That is the 2nd-largest total among the 27 Massachusetts cities indexed here, and 4.1% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.5 per square mile places Springfield near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 98% — are Flock Safety units. Volunteers also recorded non-government operators here, including Lowe's.
Updated August 14, 2026.
47
readers documented
1.5
per square mile
2nd
of 27 indexed Massachusetts cities
4.1%
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 Safety46 · 98%
- Genetec1 · 2%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 45 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Springfield Police (39), Lowe's (4), unknown (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (9)
- Coverage area
- 31.9 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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