Cameras / Minnesota / Cottage Grove
License plate readers in Cottage Grove, MN
Volunteers have documented 136 automated license plate readers inside Cottage Grove. No other Minnesota city in this index has more, and Cottage Grove alone accounts for 8.4% 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. Nearly all of them — 96% — are Flock Safety units.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 28, 2026 · figures last changed September 28, 2026.
136
readers documented
4.0
per square mile
1st
of 43 indexed Minnesota cities · 86th of 2,395 nationally
8.4%
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 Safety130 · 96%
- Motorola Solutions6 · 4%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 136 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- How they’re mounted
- pole (1)
- Coverage area
- 33.6 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: How to spot a Flock Safety camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · Minnesota ALPR law (60 days retention)
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