Cameras / South Carolina / Charleston
License plate readers in Charleston, SC
Volunteers have documented 45 automated license plate readers inside Charleston. That is the 5th-largest total among the 35 South Carolina cities indexed here, and 2.4% of the statewide total. Its 0.4 readers per square mile spread across 115.3 square miles — thinner coverage than 96% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Flock Safety accounts for 84% of them.
Updated August 14, 2026.
45
readers documented
0.4
per square mile
5th
of 35 indexed South Carolina cities
2.4%
of South Carolina’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 Safety38 · 84%
- Other vendors1 · 2%
- Unknown6 · 13%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 21 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- How they’re mounted
- pole (3)
- Coverage area
- 115.3 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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.