Cameras / Pennsylvania / Allentown
License plate readers in Allentown, PA
Volunteers have documented 59 automated license plate readers inside Allentown. That is the 4th-largest total among the 36 Pennsylvania cities indexed here, and 2.3% of the statewide total. At 3.4 per square mile it is more densely covered than 81% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Its 59 readers are more than 3 times the 15-camera median for the 36 Pennsylvania cities indexed here.
Updated August 14, 2026.
59
readers documented
3.4
per square mile
4th
of 36 indexed Pennsylvania cities
2.3%
of Pennsylvania’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 Safety52 · 88%
- Genetec4 · 7%
- Unknown3 · 5%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 39 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Allentown PD (4), AllentownPolice (2). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (3), street lamp (1)
- Coverage area
- 17.6 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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