Flock & ALPR Cameras in Aurora, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 229 automated license plate readers in and around Aurora — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 235 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Aurora, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 191 of them sit inside Aurora itself.
The rest sit in Denver (41), Aetna Estates (2).
11 of them name an operator in the record: WestWind Management (5), The Home Depot (4), Walmart (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 8 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Aurora
The readers mapped around Aurora break down as 215 Flock Safety, 9 Neology, Inc., 5 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: WestWind Management, The Home Depot, Walmart. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- East Mississippi Avenue — 19 readers
- East Colfax Avenue — 12 readers
- East 1st Avenue — 10 readers
- East 40th Avenue — 9 readers
- East Albrook Drive — 6 readers
- East 6th Avenue — 6 readers
- South Abilene Street — 6 readers
- North Tower Road — 6 readers
- South Havana Street — 5 readers
- East Hawaii Circle — 5 readers
- East Montview Boulevard — 5 readers
- North Peoria Street — 5 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Aurora — all on the live map above.
Aurora CO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Aurora CO PD runs 121 cameras of its own, has logged 3,019 plate-database searches, has captured 1,413,180 vehicle records. Its network connects to 26 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Aurora in the Arapahoe County picture
Arapahoe County has 364 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #434 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 20.3% nationally. That’s across 655,709 residents and 2,867 road miles. By road density that is 0.13 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 151 traffic, 3 entrance, 3 parking. Operators named on the record: WestWind Management (5), The Home Depot (4), Walmart (2).
Camera activity around Aurora, last 30 days
13 newly reported in our hourly change log for Aurora. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Aurora
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 Aurora — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Aurora (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Aurora
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Aurora, CO
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Aurora, CO
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Aurora, CO
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Aurora, CO
What you can do in Aurora
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 Aurora
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).