License plate readers in Austin, TX
Volunteers have documented 283 automated license plate readers inside Austin. That is the 5th-largest total among the 206 Texas cities indexed here, and 1.8% of the statewide total. Its 0.9 readers per square mile spread across 325 square miles — thinner coverage than 78% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 90% — are Flock Safety units. Volunteers also recorded non-government operators here, including Lowe's.
Updated August 14, 2026.
283
readers documented
0.9
per square mile
5th
of 206 indexed Texas cities
1.8%
of Texas’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 Safety256 · 90%
- Genetec5 · 2%
- Leonardo/ELSAG1 · 0%
- Other vendors11 · 4%
- Unknown10 · 4%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 225 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Flock Safety (6), Lowe's (4), Texas Department of Public Safety (4). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (50), traffic signal (3), street lamp (2), light pole (1)
- Coverage area
- 325 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
These locations were documented in the field by OpenStreetMap volunteers and refresh automatically every six hours. They are evidence of where cameras have been seen — not a complete or official inventory, and cameras may have been added or removed since documentation. Corrections happen upstream: edit OpenStreetMap and this page will update. Read more in our methodology.