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License plate readers in Smithfield, VA

Volunteers have documented 16 automated license plate readers inside Smithfield. That is the 28th-largest total among the 45 Virginia cities indexed here, and 0.5% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.6 per square mile places Smithfield near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Every one of them is a Flock Safety unit. Every mount volunteers recorded here is the same kind: poles.

Updated August 14, 2026.

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  • 16

    readers documented

  • 1.6

    per square mile

  • 28th

    of 45 indexed Virginia cities

  • 0.5%

    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

What volunteers recorded

Monitoring public roads
16 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
Recorded operators
Smithfield Police Department (11). Who operates these cameras nationally →
How they’re mounted
pole (13)
Coverage area
9.7 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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