Cameras / North Carolina / Raleigh
License plate readers in Raleigh, NC
Volunteers have documented 125 automated license plate readers inside Raleigh. That is the 2nd-largest total among the 63 North Carolina cities indexed here, and 3.5% of the statewide total. Its 0.8 readers per square mile spread across 152.3 square miles — thinner coverage than 81% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Its 125 readers are more than 6 times the 19-camera median for the 63 North Carolina cities indexed here.
Updated August 14, 2026.
125
readers documented
0.8
per square mile
2nd
of 63 indexed North Carolina cities
3.5%
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 Safety100 · 80%
- Motorola Solutions8 · 6%
- Genetec3 · 2%
- Leonardo/ELSAG9 · 7%
- Other vendors2 · 2%
- Unknown3 · 2%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 94 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Flock Safety (1), Raleigh Police Department (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (13), street lamp (4)
- Coverage area
- 152.3 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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