Flock & ALPR Cameras in Elmhurst, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around Elmhurst — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 25 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Elmhurst, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 24 of them sit inside Elmhurst itself.
The rest sit in Villa Park (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Elmhurst in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Elmhurst
The readers mapped around Elmhurst break down as 17 Flock Safety, 4 Motorola Solutions, 3 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2023; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North York Street — 4 readers
- Robert T. Palmer Drive — 3 readers
- East North Avenue — 2 readers
- West North Avenue — 2 readers
- Lake Street — 2 readers
- Kingery Highway — 2 readers
- East Saint Charles Road — 2 readers
- South West Avenue — 2 readers
- Garden Avenue — 1 reader
- Elizabeth Street — 1 reader
- Industrial Drive — 1 reader
- North Avenue — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Elmhurst — all on the live map above.
Elmhurst IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Elmhurst IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 108 other agencies.
Elmhurst in the DuPage County picture
DuPage County has 626 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #278 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13% nationally. That’s across 927,263 residents and 2,444 road miles. By road density that is 0.26 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic.
Camera activity around Elmhurst, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Elmhurst. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Elmhurst
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 Elmhurst — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Elmhurst (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Elmhurst
What you can do in Elmhurst
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 Elmhurst
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).