Cameras / Pennsylvania / Philadelphia
License plate readers in Philadelphia, PA
Volunteers have documented 98 automated license plate readers inside Philadelphia. That is the 2nd-largest total among the 36 Pennsylvania cities indexed here, and 3.8% of the statewide total. Its 0.7 readers per square mile spread across 134.3 square miles — thinner coverage than 84% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot.
Updated August 14, 2026.
98
readers documented
0.7
per square mile
2nd
of 36 indexed Pennsylvania cities
3.8%
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 Safety43 · 44%
- Motorola Solutions11 · 11%
- Genetec29 · 30%
- Leonardo/ELSAG3 · 3%
- Other vendors2 · 2%
- Unknown10 · 10%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 83 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- The Home Depot (5), Temple University Campus PA PD (4). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (15), gantry (2), street lamp (2), building (1)
- Coverage area
- 134.3 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
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