Cameras / Minnesota / Minneapolis
License plate readers in Minneapolis, MN
Volunteers have documented 93 automated license plate readers inside Minneapolis. No other Minnesota city in this index has more, and Minneapolis alone accounts for 6.5% of every reader documented in the state. Its density of 1.7 per square mile places Minneapolis near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Its 93 readers are more than 5 times the 16-camera median for the 43 Minnesota cities indexed here. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 44 on traffic signals and 4 on poles.
Updated August 14, 2026.
93
readers documented
1.7
per square mile
1st
of 43 indexed Minnesota cities
6.5%
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 Safety41 · 44%
- Motorola Solutions1 · 1%
- Genetec4 · 4%
- Other vendors47 · 51%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 89 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Minneapolis Police Department (45), Hennepin County Sheriff's Office (5), University of Minnesota Police Departmen (2). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- traffic signal (44), pole (4), street lamp (2)
- Coverage area
- 54 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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