Flock & ALPR Cameras in Elsmere, Delaware
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Elsmere — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Elsmere, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Elsmere itself.
The rest sit in Wilmington (2).
9 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Elsmere in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Elsmere
The readers mapped around Elsmere break down as 13 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Olympus Point — 4 readers
- Court Drive — 2 readers
- New Castle County — 2 readers
- Lancaster Avenue — 1 reader
- North Dupont Road — 1 reader
- Robinson Lane — 1 reader
- DE 2 — 1 reader
- Wilmington Avenue — 1 reader
Elsmere in the New Castle County picture
New Castle County has 217 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #793 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 573,030 residents and 2,346 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 13 traffic.
What’s watching Elsmere
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 Elsmere — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Elsmere (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Elsmere
What you can do in Elsmere
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 Elsmere
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).