License plate readers in Columbia, MO
Volunteers have documented 107 automated license plate readers inside Columbia. That is the 3rd-largest total among the 62 Missouri cities indexed here, and 3.4% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.6 per square mile places Columbia near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 94% — are Flock Safety units.
Updated August 14, 2026.
107
readers documented
1.6
per square mile
3rd
of 62 indexed Missouri cities
3.4%
of Missouri’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 Safety101 · 94%
- Motorola Solutions4 · 4%
- Neology2 · 2%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 90 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- City of Columbia (27), City of Columbia PD (7), Columbia, Mo Police Department (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (14), traffic signal (2), street lamp (1)
- Coverage area
- 67.8 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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