License plate readers in Norfolk, VA
Volunteers have documented 236 automated license plate readers inside Norfolk. No other Virginia city in this index has more, and Norfolk alone accounts for 7.4% of every reader documented in the state. At 4.4 per square mile it is more densely covered than 87% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 92% — are Flock Safety units. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 197 on poles and 8 on street lamps.
Updated August 14, 2026.
236
readers documented
4.4
per square mile
1st
of 45 indexed Virginia cities
7.4%
of Virginia’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 Safety218 · 92%
- Other vendors18 · 8%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 234 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Norfolk Police Department (165), Norfolk State University (13), Flock Safety (7). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (197), street lamp (8), traffic signal (5), traffic signal (5)
- Coverage area
- 53.3 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · Virginia ALPR law
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.