Cameras / OH
License plate readers in Ohio
6,985 cameras have been documented in Ohio. That is the 6th-largest documented total of the 52 states and territories with any readers on record, and 4.8% of the 146,149 documented nationwide. Columbus has the most of any city in the state, with 345 — 4.9% of the total. Flock Safety accounts for the largest share of the 4,428 readers counted in the state's indexed cities, at 88%. 4,428 of them stand in the 153 cities listed below. 2,557 more are outside those city limits — along highways, in smaller towns, and in unincorporated areas.
Checked against OpenStreetMap November 14, 2026 · figures last changed November 13, 2026.
6,985
cameras documented statewide
6th
most-documented of 52 states and territories
4,428
in listed cities
2,557
outside city limits
Who makes them
Manufacturer, where volunteers recorded it, for cameras in the listed cities.
- Flock Safety3,905
- Motorola Solutions48
- Genetec20
- Leonardo/ELSAG20
- Neology3
- Other vendors75
- Unknown357
By city
Camera locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). City boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Counts reflect volunteer documentation, not an official census; cities appear once ten cameras are documented.
Contract decisions in Ohio
2 decisions here are in our tracker of communities that have stepped back from Flock Safety. A decision date is not a removal date: cameras stay in the record above until a volunteer edits OpenStreetMap.
Explore this data further
- Who operates Ohio’s cameras — police, HOAs, and retailers →
- Every ALPR manufacturer compared nationally →
- Download this data as CSV or GeoJSON →
- How the national count is measured →
- What a Flock camera is and how it works →
- What the cameras look like, and how to spot one →
- What residents can and cannot opt out of →
- How state license plate reader laws compare →
Ohio ranks 6th of 52 by documented cameras. Illinois (7,660) ranks just above, and New York (4,822) just below.