Cameras / North Carolina / Gastonia
License plate readers in Gastonia, NC
Volunteers have documented 49 automated license plate readers inside Gastonia. That is the 8th-largest total among the 63 North Carolina cities indexed here, and 1.4% of the statewide total. Its 0.9 readers per square mile spread across 54.8 square miles — thinner coverage than 77% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Every one of them is a Flock Safety unit. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 19 on poles and 3 on street lamps.
Updated August 14, 2026.
49
readers documented
0.9
per square mile
8th
of 63 indexed North Carolina cities
1.4%
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 Safety49 · 100%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 47 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- How they’re mounted
- pole (19), street lamp (3), post (1), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 54.8 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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