Cameras / North Carolina / Charlotte
License plate readers in Charlotte, NC
Volunteers have documented 302 automated license plate readers inside Charlotte. No other North Carolina city in this index has more, and Charlotte alone accounts for 7.9% of every reader documented in the state. Its 1.0 readers per square mile spread across 312.1 square miles — thinner coverage than 76% of the 2,395 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's and The Home Depot.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed September 27, 2026.
302
readers documented
1.0
per square mile
1st
of 69 indexed North Carolina cities · 23rd of 2,395 nationally
7.9%
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 Safety238 · 79%
- Motorola Solutions2 · 1%
- Genetec15 · 5%
- Neology1 · 0%
- Other vendors33 · 11%
- Unknown13 · 4%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 267 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Lowe's (12), The Home Depot (9), Flock Safety (1). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (71), 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: How to spot a Flock Safety camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · North Carolina ALPR law (90 days retention)
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