Cameras / Virginia / Portsmouth
License plate readers in Portsmouth, VA
Volunteers have documented 105 automated license plate readers inside Portsmouth. That is the 7th-largest total among the 45 Virginia cities indexed here, and 3.3% of the statewide total. At 3.1 per square mile it is more densely covered than 80% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's.
Updated August 14, 2026.
105
readers documented
3.1
per square mile
7th
of 45 indexed Virginia cities
3.3%
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 Safety92 · 88%
- Other vendors11 · 10%
- Unknown2 · 2%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 88 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Portsmouth Police Department (54), Portsmouth Police Department (Virginia) (6), Lowe's (4). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (56), street lamp (1)
- Coverage area
- 33.3 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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