Cameras / Tennessee / Knoxville
License plate readers in Knoxville, TN
Volunteers have documented 147 automated license plate readers inside Knoxville. That is the 5th-largest total among the 58 Tennessee cities indexed here, and 3.9% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.5 per square mile places Knoxville near the middle of the 2,430 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's.
Checked against OpenStreetMap November 14, 2026 · figures last changed October 30, 2026.
147
readers documented
1.5
per square mile
5th
of 58 indexed Tennessee cities · 78th of 2,430 nationally
3.9%
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 Safety87 · 59%
- Motorola Solutions10 · 7%
- Genetec16 · 11%
- Leonardo/ELSAG2 · 1%
- Other vendors24 · 16%
- Unknown8 · 5%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 139 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Lowe's (2). All 719 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- street lamp (5), pole (4)
- Coverage area
- 98.7 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: How to spot a Flock Safety camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · Tennessee ALPR law (90 days retention)
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