Cameras / South Dakota / Rapid City
License plate readers in Rapid City, SD
Volunteers have documented 15 automated license plate readers inside Rapid City. That is the 3rd-largest total among the 4 South Dakota cities indexed here, and 8.5% of the statewide total. Its 0.3 readers per square mile spread across 56 square miles — thinner coverage than 98% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Flock Safety accounts for 47% of them.
Updated August 14, 2026.
15
readers documented
0.3
per square mile
3rd
of 4 indexed South Dakota cities
8.5%
of South Dakota’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 Safety7 · 47%
- Other vendors8 · 53%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 12 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- How they’re mounted
- pole (4), street lamp (1), pole:1 (1)
- Coverage area
- 56 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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