Cameras / South Carolina / Columbia
License plate readers in Columbia, SC
Volunteers have documented 58 automated license plate readers inside Columbia. That is the 2nd-largest total among the 35 South Carolina cities indexed here, and 3.0% of the statewide total. Its 0.4 readers per square mile spread across 139.4 square miles — thinner coverage than 95% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 15 on poles and 4 on street lamps.
Updated August 14, 2026.
58
readers documented
0.4
per square mile
2nd
of 35 indexed South Carolina cities
3.0%
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 Safety50 · 86%
- Motorola Solutions4 · 7%
- Genetec2 · 3%
- Neology1 · 2%
- Other vendors1 · 2%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 57 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Lowe's (4). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (15), street lamp (4)
- Coverage area
- 139.4 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
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