Cameras / Pennsylvania / Pittsburgh
License plate readers in Pittsburgh, PA
Volunteers have documented 276 automated license plate readers inside Pittsburgh. No other Pennsylvania city in this index has more, and Pittsburgh alone accounts for 7.3% of every reader documented in the state. At 5.0 per square mile it is more densely covered than 88% of the 2,395 US cities indexed nationally. Its 276 readers are more than 18 times the 15-camera median for the 61 Pennsylvania cities indexed here.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed September 19, 2026.
276
readers documented
5.0
per square mile
1st
of 61 indexed Pennsylvania cities · 27th of 2,395 nationally
7.3%
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 Safety87 · 32%
- Motorola Solutions87 · 32%
- Genetec50 · 18%
- Neology6 · 2%
- Other vendors21 · 8%
- Unknown25 · 9%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 246 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Pittsburgh Parking Authority (3). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (9), street lamp (3), traffic signal (3)
- Coverage area
- 55.4 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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