Flock & ALPR Cameras in Avondale, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Avondale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Avondale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 17 of them sit inside Avondale itself.
The rest sit in Goodyear (5).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Avondale in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Avondale
The readers mapped around Avondale break down as 21 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Dysart Road — 8 readers
- West McDowell Road — 6 readers
- West Van Buren Street — 4 readers
- North Gardens — 1 reader
- Coldwater Plaza North — 1 reader
- West Rancho Santa Fe Boulevard — 1 reader
- East Main Street — 1 reader
Avondale AZ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Avondale AZ PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 3 other agencies.
Avondale in the Maricopa County picture
Maricopa County has 1,098 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,203 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 4,491,987 residents and 21,641 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic.
What’s watching Avondale
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Avondale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Avondale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Avondale
What you can do in Avondale
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Avondale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).