Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wilmington, Delaware
Volunteers have reported 33 automated license plate readers in and around Wilmington — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Cameras Removed
Wilmington is on the record here. Wilmington, Delaware removed Flock cameras amid growing debate over license plate readers.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 34 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wilmington, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 27 of them sit inside Wilmington itself.
The rest sit in Holloway Terrace (1), Minquadale (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Deleware State Police (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
5 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 7 Axon Enterprise camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Wilmington
The readers mapped around Wilmington break down as 31 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Deleware State Police. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Wilmington Expressway — 5 readers
- West 18th Street — 3 readers
- Rogers Road — 2 readers
- Concord Pike — 2 readers
- New Castle Avenue — 2 readers
- Miller Road — 1 reader
- Concord Avenue — 1 reader
- Augustine Road — 1 reader
- Martin Luther King Boulevard — 1 reader
- South Jackson Street — 1 reader
- West 11th Street — 1 reader
- Shallcross Avenue — 1 reader
+ 10 more streets and roads mapped around Wilmington — all on the live map above.
Wilmington 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 31 traffic. Operators named on the record: Deleware State Police (1).
Camera activity around Wilmington, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Wilmington. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.
What’s watching Wilmington
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 Wilmington — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wilmington (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wilmington
- Wilmington, Delaware removes Flock cameras as debate over license plate readers grows
- Wilmington, Delaware, decommissioning Flock automated license plate readers amid growing debate over mass surveillance system
- Wilmington, Delaware, to decommission Flock cameras amid growing debate over mass surveillance]]>
- Wilmington, Delaware, to decomission Flock cameras amid growing debate over mass surveillance system
What you can do in Wilmington
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 Wilmington
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).