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License plate readers in Pittsburgh, PA

Volunteers have documented 200 automated license plate readers inside Pittsburgh. No other Pennsylvania city in this index has more, and Pittsburgh alone accounts for 7.7% of every reader documented in the state. At 3.6 per square mile it is more densely covered than 83% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Motorola Solutions holds the largest share here at 36%, rather than Flock Safety, which leads in most cities in this index.

Updated August 14, 2026.

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  • 200

    readers documented

  • 3.6

    per square mile

  • 1st

    of 36 indexed Pennsylvania cities

  • 7.7%

    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

What volunteers recorded

Monitoring public roads
170 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
Recorded operators
Pittsburgh Parking Authority (3). Who operates these cameras nationally →
How they’re mounted
pole (5), street lamp (3), traffic signal (3)
Coverage area
55.4 square miles of land inside city limits.

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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.