Cameras / New Jersey / Jersey City
License plate readers in Jersey City, NJ
Volunteers have documented 18 automated license plate readers inside Jersey City. That is the 16th-largest total among the 28 New Jersey cities indexed here, and 0.8% of the statewide total. Its 1.2 readers per square mile spread across 14.7 square miles — thinner coverage than 66% of the 2,395 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's and Simon Property Group.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed August 24, 2026.
18
readers documented
1.2
per square mile
16th
of 28 indexed New Jersey cities · 1,358th of 2,395 nationally
0.8%
of New Jersey’s documented total
Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 16 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- PANYNJ (7), Lowe's (2), Simon Property Group (1). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- gantry (8), pole (1)
- Coverage area
- 14.7 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
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