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License plate readers in Houston, TX

Volunteers have documented 2,472 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 3.9 per square mile it is more densely covered than 82% of the 2,400 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 October 9, 2026 · figures last changed October 9, 2026.

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  • 2,472

    readers documented

  • 3.9

    per square mile

  • 1st

    of 217 indexed Texas cities · 1st of 2,400 nationally

  • 14%

    of Texas’s documented total

Showing 1,236 of 2,472 documented locations. Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Who makes them

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What volunteers recorded

Monitoring public roads
2,083 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 725 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
How they’re mounted
pole (421), 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.