Cameras / Virginia / Petersburg
License plate readers in Petersburg, VA
Volunteers have documented 10 automated license plate readers inside Petersburg. That is the 42nd-largest total among the 45 Virginia cities indexed here, and 0.3% of the statewide total. Its 0.4 readers per square mile spread across 22.7 square miles — thinner coverage than 94% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Every one of them is a Flock Safety unit. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 3 on poles and 2 on street lamps.
Updated August 14, 2026.
10
readers documented
0.4
per square mile
42nd
of 45 indexed Virginia cities
0.3%
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 Safety10 · 100%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 10 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Petersburg Police Department (4). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (3), street lamp (2)
- Coverage area
- 22.7 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · Virginia ALPR law
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