Cameras / Washington / Auburn
License plate readers in Auburn, WA
Volunteers have documented 51 automated license plate readers inside Auburn. That is the 7th-largest total among the 54 Washington cities indexed here, and 2.3% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.7 per square mile places Auburn near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 9 on poles and 5 on traffic signals.
Updated August 14, 2026.
51
readers documented
1.7
per square mile
7th
of 54 indexed Washington cities
2.3%
of Washington’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 Safety41 · 80%
- Other vendors7 · 14%
- Unknown3 · 6%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 26 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Auburn Police (15), Lowe's (5), King County Housing Authority (3). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (9), traffic signal (5), building (3), street lamp (2)
- Coverage area
- 29.8 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · Washington ALPR law
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