Charlotte, NC

656 license-plate readers and surveillance cameras are mapped within about 25 miles of Charlotte — the 39th most of any U.S. metro we track, and 97% of them were added since 2024.

656

Cameras mapped · ~25 mi

#39

of 170 U.S. metros

97%

Added since 2024

Tagged "Flock Safety"

Where they are

Every mapped reader within range of Charlotte, live from the open dataset. Pan and zoom freely; tap any camera on the full map to confirm or flag it.

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How fast it grew

Cameras in the Charlotte area by the year they entered the public record. The recent surge tracks a real, nationwide buildout of automatic plate readers — not a mapping artifact.

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'24

335

'25

303

'26

Live community activity

Updated in real time from contributions made here on the web and in the CivilGPS app — the same shared, open dataset.

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Community-added here

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Confirmations logged

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Active road reports (2h)

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How these numbers are made. We count every camera on the open OpenStreetMap / DeFlock record within roughly 25 miles of Charlotte's center, then rank that metro against 170 others. Suburbs fold into their principal city, so each metro is counted once. "Added since 2024" uses the date a camera entered the public map — an approximation of when it was deployed, not an exact install date. The data is community-maintained and may be incomplete; figures describe what has been mapped, not a guarantee of every device present. Licensed ODbL. See something missing? Add it →