Cameras / Tennessee / Kingsport
License plate readers in Kingsport, TN
Volunteers have documented 31 automated license plate readers inside Kingsport. That is the 16th-largest total among the 53 Tennessee cities indexed here, and 0.9% of the statewide total. Its 0.6 readers per square mile spread across 53.1 square miles — thinner coverage than 90% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Every one of them is a Flock Safety unit. Volunteers also recorded non-government operators here, including Lowes.
Updated August 14, 2026.
31
readers documented
0.6
per square mile
16th
of 53 indexed Tennessee cities
0.9%
of Tennessee’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 Safety31 · 100%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 31 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Lowes (5). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (7)
- Coverage area
- 53.1 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · Tennessee ALPR law
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