Cameras / Missouri / Kansas City
License plate readers in Kansas City, MO
Volunteers have documented 474 automated license plate readers inside Kansas City. No other Missouri city in this index has more, and Kansas City alone accounts for 15% of every reader documented in the state. Its density of 1.5 per square mile places Kansas City near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Genetec holds the largest share here at 54%, rather than Flock Safety, which leads in most cities in this index. Volunteers also recorded non-government operators here, including Lowe's and The Home Depot. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 89 on poles and 68 on traffic signals.
Updated August 14, 2026.
474
readers documented
1.5
per square mile
1st
of 62 indexed Missouri cities
15%
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 Safety103 · 22%
- Motorola Solutions114 · 24%
- Genetec255 · 54%
- Leonardo/ELSAG1 · 0%
- Neology1 · 0%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 457 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Lowe's (4), The Home Depot (2). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (89), traffic signal (68), street lamp (1)
- Coverage area
- 314.5 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
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