License plate readers in Columbus, OH
Volunteers have documented 345 automated license plate readers inside Columbus. No other Ohio city in this index has more, and Columbus alone accounts for 4.9% of every reader documented in the state. Its density of 1.6 per square mile places Columbus near the middle of the 2,430 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's.
Checked against OpenStreetMap November 14, 2026 · figures last changed November 4, 2026.
345
readers documented
1.6
per square mile
1st
of 153 indexed Ohio cities · 18th of 2,430 nationally
4.9%
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 Safety301 · 87%
- Other vendors1 · 0%
- Unknown43 · 12%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 315 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Flock Safety (43), Lowe's (3). All 719 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (75), street lamp (10), post (8), traffic signal (4), Utility Pole (1)
- Coverage area
- 221.9 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: How to spot a Flock Safety camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · How state ALPR laws compare
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