License plate readers in Cleveland, OH
Volunteers have documented 198 automated license plate readers inside Cleveland. That is the 2nd-largest total among the 151 Ohio cities indexed here, and 3.0% of the statewide total. At 2.5 per square mile it is more densely covered than 71% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot.
Updated August 14, 2026.
198
readers documented
2.5
per square mile
2nd
of 151 indexed Ohio cities
3.0%
of Ohio’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 Safety158 · 80%
- Motorola Solutions3 · 2%
- Genetec1 · 1%
- Leonardo/ELSAG2 · 1%
- Other vendors1 · 1%
- Unknown33 · 17%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 175 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- The Home Depot (3), Flock Safety (2), City of Cleveland Police (2). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (15), street lamp (4), traffic signal (2), utility (2), post (2)
- Coverage area
- 77.7 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
These locations were documented in the field by OpenStreetMap volunteers and refresh automatically every six hours. They are evidence of where cameras have been seen — not a complete or official inventory, and cameras may have been added or removed since documentation. Corrections happen upstream: edit OpenStreetMap and this page will update. Read more in our methodology.