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License plate readers in Houston, TX

Volunteers have documented 2,316 automated license plate readers inside Houston. No other Texas city in this index has more, and Houston alone accounts for 15% of every reader documented in the state. At 3.6 per square mile it is more densely covered than 83% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 92% — are Flock Safety units. Volunteers also recorded non-government operators here, including The Home Depot.

Updated August 14, 2026.

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  • 2,316

    readers documented

  • 3.6

    per square mile

  • 1st

    of 206 indexed Texas cities

  • 15%

    of Texas’s documented total

Showing 1,158 of 2,316 documented locations. Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Who makes them

What volunteers recorded

Monitoring public roads
1,931 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
Recorded operators
Flock Safety (236), West University Place Police Dept (13), The Home Depot (4). Who operates these cameras nationally →
How they’re mounted
pole (386), traffic signal (20), street lamp (6), wall (3), traffic signal (1)
Coverage area
640.8 square miles of land inside city limits.

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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.