License plate readers in Brownsville, TX
Volunteers have documented 60 automated license plate readers inside Brownsville. That is the 43rd-largest total among the 206 Texas cities indexed here, and 0.4% of the statewide total. Its 0.5 readers per square mile spread across 122 square miles — thinner coverage than 93% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 90% — are Flock Safety units. Volunteers also recorded non-government operators here, including Simon Property Group.
Updated August 14, 2026.
60
readers documented
0.5
per square mile
43rd
of 206 indexed Texas cities
0.4%
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 Safety54 · 90%
- Motorola Solutions1 · 2%
- Unknown5 · 8%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 60 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Customs and Border Protection (4), Simon Property Group (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- traffic signal (6), pole (2), power pole (2)
- Coverage area
- 122 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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