Cameras / Washington / Bellevue
License plate readers in Bellevue, WA
Volunteers have documented 23 automated license plate readers inside Bellevue. That is the 22nd-largest total among the 54 Washington cities indexed here, and 1.0% of the statewide total. Its 0.7 readers per square mile spread across 33.5 square miles — thinner coverage than 86% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged The Home Depot and Kroger. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 5 on street lamps and 5 on poles. Not all of them watch open road: 3 were tagged in parking areas.
Updated August 14, 2026.
23
readers documented
0.7
per square mile
22nd
of 54 indexed Washington cities
1.0%
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 Safety11 · 48%
- Other vendors6 · 26%
- Unknown6 · 26%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 11 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Washington State Department of Transport (5), The Home Depot (3), Kroger (2). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- street lamp (5), pole (5)
- Coverage area
- 33.5 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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