License plate readers in Dayton, OH
Volunteers have documented 80 automated license plate readers inside Dayton. That is the 5th-largest total among the 151 Ohio cities indexed here, and 1.2% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.4 per square mile places Dayton near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 98% — are Flock Safety units.
Updated August 14, 2026.
80
readers documented
1.4
per square mile
5th
of 151 indexed Ohio cities
1.2%
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 Safety78 · 98%
- Unknown2 · 3%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 49 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Dayton, OH Police Dept (7). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (3), street lamp (2), post (1)
- Coverage area
- 55.8 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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