Cameras / Tennessee / Knoxville
License plate readers in Knoxville, TN
Volunteers have documented 150 automated license plate readers inside Knoxville. That is the 4th-largest total among the 53 Tennessee cities indexed here, and 4.5% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.5 per square mile places Knoxville near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's.
Updated August 14, 2026.
150
readers documented
1.5
per square mile
4th
of 53 indexed Tennessee cities
4.5%
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 Safety101 · 67%
- Motorola Solutions11 · 7%
- Genetec14 · 9%
- Leonardo/ELSAG2 · 1%
- Other vendors17 · 11%
- Unknown5 · 3%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 143 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Lowe's (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (6), street lamp (5)
- Coverage area
- 98.7 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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