Cameras / North Carolina / Winston-Salem
License plate readers in Winston-Salem, NC
Volunteers have documented 79 automated license plate readers inside Winston-Salem. That is the 3rd-largest total among the 69 North Carolina cities indexed here, and 2.1% of the statewide total. Its 0.6 readers per square mile spread across 133.7 square miles — thinner coverage than 90% of the 2,398 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's and The Home Depot. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 25 on posts and 11 on poles.
Checked against OpenStreetMap October 7, 2026 · figures last changed October 6, 2026.
79
readers documented
0.6
per square mile
3rd
of 69 indexed North Carolina cities · 226th of 2,398 nationally
2.1%
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 Safety37 · 47%
- Motorola Solutions1 · 1%
- Other vendors40 · 51%
- Unknown1 · 1%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 70 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Forsyth County (5), Lowe's (4), The Home Depot (1). All 726 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- post (25), pole (11), street lamp (4), trailer (2), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 133.7 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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