License plate readers in Detroit, MI
Volunteers have documented 559 automated license plate readers inside Detroit. No other Michigan city in this index has more, and Detroit alone accounts for 15% of every reader documented in the state. At 4.0 per square mile it is more densely covered than 83% of the 2,395 US cities indexed nationally. Its 559 readers are more than 27 times the 20-camera median for the 63 Michigan cities indexed here. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 342 on poles and 64 on street lamps.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed September 13, 2026.
559
readers documented
4.0
per square mile
1st
of 63 indexed Michigan cities · 9th of 2,395 nationally
15%
of Michigan’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 Safety297 · 53%
- Motorola Solutions200 · 36%
- Genetec51 · 9%
- Other vendors10 · 2%
- Unknown1 · 0%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 552 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Detroit Police Department (449), Michigan State Police (19), Rock Security (10). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (342), street lamp (64), post (61), traffic signal (52), building (10)
- Coverage area
- 138.7 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: How to spot a Flock Safety camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · How state ALPR laws compare
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