License plate readers in San Marcos, TX
Volunteers have documented 30 automated license plate readers inside San Marcos. That is the 86th-largest total among the 206 Texas cities indexed here, and 0.2% of the statewide total. Its 0.7 readers per square mile spread across 40.4 square miles — thinner coverage than 84% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Simon Property Group.
Updated August 14, 2026.
30
readers documented
0.7
per square mile
86th
of 206 indexed Texas cities
0.2%
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 Safety16 · 53%
- Genetec10 · 33%
- Unknown4 · 13%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 25 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- San Marcos (4), Simon Property Group (3), Flock Safety (2). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- Coverage area
- 40.4 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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.