Cameras / Virginia / Virginia Beach
License plate readers in Virginia Beach, VA
Volunteers have documented 251 automated license plate readers inside Virginia Beach. No other Virginia city in this index has more, and Virginia Beach alone accounts for 7.1% of every reader documented in the state. Its 1.0 readers per square mile spread across 244.7 square miles — thinner coverage than 74% of the 2,395 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 54 on poles and 25 on street lamps.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed September 28, 2026.
251
readers documented
1.0
per square mile
1st
of 48 indexed Virginia cities · 29th of 2,395 nationally
7.1%
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 Safety198 · 79%
- Motorola Solutions5 · 2%
- Genetec5 · 2%
- Other vendors43 · 17%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 247 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Virginia Beach Police Department (32), Lowe's (5), Flock Safety (2). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (54), street lamp (25), traffic signal (16), 2 (1), traffic signal (1)
- Coverage area
- 244.7 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: How to spot a Flock Safety camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · Virginia ALPR law (21 days retention)
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