Cameras / North Carolina / Matthews
License plate readers in Matthews, NC
Volunteers have documented 23 automated license plate readers inside Matthews. That is the 26th-largest total among the 63 North Carolina cities indexed here, and 0.6% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.3 per square mile places Matthews near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 96% — are Flock Safety units.
Updated August 14, 2026.
23
readers documented
1.3
per square mile
26th
of 63 indexed North Carolina cities
0.6%
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 Safety22 · 96%
- Other vendors1 · 4%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 16 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- How they’re mounted
- pole (2)
- Coverage area
- 17.1 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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