Cameras / North Dakota / Bismarck
License plate readers in Bismarck, ND
Volunteers have documented 91 automated license plate readers inside Bismarck. No other North Dakota city in this index has more, and Bismarck alone accounts for 27% of every reader documented in the state. At 2.5 per square mile it is more densely covered than 68% of the 2,384 US cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 18, 2026 · figures last changed September 18, 2026.
91
readers documented
2.5
per square mile
1st
of 5 indexed North Dakota cities · 161st of 2,384 nationally
27%
of North Dakota’s documented total
Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 86 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Lowe's (2). All 719 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (1)
- Coverage area
- 36 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
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