Cameras / Pennsylvania / Philadelphia
License plate readers in Philadelphia, PA
Volunteers have documented 131 automated license plate readers inside Philadelphia. That is the 2nd-largest total among the 61 Pennsylvania cities indexed here, and 3.5% of the statewide total. Its 1.0 readers per square mile spread across 134.3 square miles — thinner coverage than 76% of the 2,395 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot and Lowe's.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed September 16, 2026.
131
readers documented
1.0
per square mile
2nd
of 61 indexed Pennsylvania cities · 96th of 2,395 nationally
3.5%
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 Safety53 · 40%
- Motorola Solutions19 · 15%
- Genetec47 · 36%
- Other vendors2 · 2%
- Unknown10 · 8%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 116 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- The Home Depot (5), Temple University Campus PA PD (4), Lowe's (1). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (18), street lamp (3), gantry (2), building (1)
- Coverage area
- 134.3 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: How to spot a Flock Safety camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · How state ALPR laws compare
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