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License plate readers in Winston-Salem, NC

Volunteers have documented 35 automated license plate readers inside Winston-Salem. That is the 14th-largest total among the 63 North Carolina cities indexed here, and 1.0% of the statewide total. Its 0.3 readers per square mile spread across 133.7 square miles — thinner coverage than 99% 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.

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  • 35

    readers documented

  • 0.3

    per square mile

  • 14th

    of 63 indexed North Carolina cities

  • 1.0%

    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

What volunteers recorded

Monitoring public roads
27 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
Recorded operators
Forsyth County (5), Lowe's (4), The Home Depot (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
How they’re mounted
pole (3), traffic signal (1)
Coverage area
133.7 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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