Cameras / Massachusetts / Waltham
License plate readers in Waltham, MA
Volunteers have documented 21 automated license plate readers inside Waltham. That is the 10th-largest total among the 27 Massachusetts cities indexed here, and 1.8% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.6 per square mile places Waltham near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 90% — are Flock Safety units.
Updated August 14, 2026.
21
readers documented
1.6
per square mile
10th
of 27 indexed Massachusetts cities
1.8%
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 Safety19 · 90%
- Unknown2 · 10%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 1 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Waltham Police Department (13), Waltahm Police Department (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- Coverage area
- 12.7 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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