Cameras / North Carolina / Charlotte
License plate readers in Charlotte, NC
Volunteers have documented 270 automated license plate readers inside Charlotte. No other North Carolina city in this index has more, and Charlotte alone accounts for 7.6% of every reader documented in the state. Its 0.9 readers per square mile spread across 312.1 square miles — thinner coverage than 78% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's and The Home Depot.
Updated August 14, 2026.
270
readers documented
0.9
per square mile
1st
of 63 indexed North Carolina cities
7.6%
of North Carolina’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 Safety226 · 84%
- Motorola Solutions2 · 1%
- Genetec1 · 0%
- Neology1 · 0%
- Other vendors26 · 10%
- Unknown14 · 5%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 234 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Lowe's (11), The Home Depot (9), Flock Safety (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (66), post (11), street lamp (1), street light cable (1), ceiling (1)
- Coverage area
- 312.1 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · North Carolina ALPR law
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