License plate readers in Columbus, OH
Volunteers have documented 316 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 1.4 per square mile places Columbus near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 74 on poles and 11 on street lamps.
Updated August 14, 2026.
316
readers documented
1.4
per square mile
1st
of 151 indexed Ohio cities
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 Safety272 · 86%
- Unknown44 · 14%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 285 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Flock Safety (43), Lowe's (3). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (74), street lamp (11), post (8), traffic signal (4), Utility Pole (1)
- Coverage area
- 221.9 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
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