Cameras / Wisconsin / Milwaukee
License plate readers in Milwaukee, WI
Volunteers have documented 149 automated license plate readers inside Milwaukee. No other Wisconsin city in this index has more, and Milwaukee alone accounts for 7.1% of every reader documented in the state. Its density of 1.6 per square mile places Milwaukee near the middle of the 2,430 cities indexed nationally. Its 149 readers are more than 8 times the 17-camera median for the 44 Wisconsin cities indexed here.
Checked against OpenStreetMap November 14, 2026 · figures last changed November 13, 2026.
149
readers documented
1.6
per square mile
1st
of 44 indexed Wisconsin cities · 76th of 2,430 nationally
7.1%
of Wisconsin’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 Safety117 · 79%
- Motorola Solutions1 · 1%
- Genetec16 · 11%
- Other vendors12 · 8%
- Unknown3 · 2%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 119 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- West Allis (1), Greenfield (1), Flock Safety (1). All 719 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (32), wall (5), street lamp (4), traffic signal (1), trailer (1)
- Coverage area
- 96.2 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: How to spot a Flock Safety camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · How state ALPR laws compare
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