Cameras / Minnesota / Cottage Grove
License plate readers in Cottage Grove, MN
Volunteers have documented 54 automated license plate readers inside Cottage Grove. That is the 3rd-largest total among the 43 Minnesota cities indexed here, and 3.8% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.6 per square mile places Cottage Grove near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 98% — are Flock Safety units.
Updated August 14, 2026.
54
readers documented
1.6
per square mile
3rd
of 43 indexed Minnesota cities
3.8%
of Minnesota’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 Safety53 · 98%
- Motorola Solutions1 · 2%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 54 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Coverage area
- 33.6 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · Minnesota ALPR law
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