License plate readers in Houston, TX
Volunteers have documented 2,457 automated license plate readers inside Houston. No other Texas city in this index has more, and Houston alone accounts for 14% of every reader documented in the state. At 3.8 per square mile it is more densely covered than 82% of the 2,395 US cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 92% — are Flock Safety units. Volunteers also recorded non-government operators here, including The Home Depot.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed September 27, 2026.
2,457
readers documented
3.8
per square mile
1st
of 215 indexed Texas cities · 1st of 2,395 nationally
14%
of Texas’s documented total
Showing 1,229 of 2,457 documented locations. Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Who makes them
- Flock Safety2,252 · 92%
- Motorola Solutions18 · 1%
- Genetec19 · 1%
- Leonardo/ELSAG1 · 0%
- Neology7 · 0%
- Other vendors5 · 0%
- Unknown155 · 6%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 2,069 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Flock Safety (237), West University Place Police Dept (13), The Home Depot (6). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (412), traffic signal (20), street lamp (12), wall (5), post (3)
- Coverage area
- 640.8 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: How to spot a Flock Safety camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · How state ALPR laws compare
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, or download the aggregates in bulk.