License plate readers in San Antonio, TX
Volunteers have documented 315 automated license plate readers inside San Antonio. That is the 4th-largest total among the 206 Texas cities indexed here, and 2.0% of the statewide total. Its 0.6 readers per square mile spread across 499 square miles — thinner coverage than 88% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 98% — are Flock Safety units. Volunteers also recorded non-government operators here, including Lowe's and Academy Sports + Outdoors.
Updated August 14, 2026.
315
readers documented
0.6
per square mile
4th
of 206 indexed Texas cities
2.0%
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 Safety310 · 98%
- Motorola Solutions1 · 0%
- Other vendors4 · 1%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 288 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Lowe's (7), Academy Sports + Outdoors (5), Live Oak (2). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (32), street lamp (2), traffic signal (1), wall (1)
- Coverage area
- 499 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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