License plate readers in Portland, OR
Volunteers have documented 64 automated license plate readers inside Portland. No other Oregon city in this index has more, and Portland alone accounts for 14% of every reader documented in the state. Its 0.5 readers per square mile spread across 133.5 square miles — thinner coverage than 93% of the 2,232 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot, Lowe's, and Kroger. Not all of them watch open road: 8 were tagged in parking areas.
Updated August 15, 2026.
64
readers documented
0.5
per square mile
1st
of 9 indexed Oregon cities
14%
of Oregon’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 Safety33 · 52%
- Motorola Solutions2 · 3%
- Genetec4 · 6%
- Other vendors19 · 30%
- Unknown6 · 9%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 47 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- The Home Depot (7), Lowe's (4), Kroger (4). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (18), post (1), street lamp (1), polei (1)
- Coverage area
- 133.5 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · Oregon ALPR law
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.