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License plate readers in Carlsbad, NM

Volunteers have documented 14 automated license plate readers inside Carlsbad. That is the 12th-largest total among the 18 New Mexico cities indexed here, and 1.5% of the statewide total. Its 0.4 readers per square mile spread across 31.7 square miles — thinner coverage than 94% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's.

Updated August 14, 2026.

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  • 14

    readers documented

  • 0.4

    per square mile

  • 12th

    of 18 indexed New Mexico cities

  • 1.5%

    of New Mexico’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

What volunteers recorded

Monitoring public roads
14 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
Recorded operators
Lowe's (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
How they’re mounted
pole (4)
Coverage area
31.7 square miles of land inside city limits.

Nearby

Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · New Mexico ALPR law

These locations were documented in the field by OpenStreetMap volunteers and refresh automatically every six hours. They are evidence of where cameras have been seen — not a complete or official inventory, and cameras may have been added or removed since documentation. Corrections happen upstream: edit OpenStreetMap and this page will update. Read more in our methodology.