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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Minnetonka Mills, Minnesota

Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around Minnetonka Mills — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 24 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Minnetonka Mills, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Minnetonka Mills itself.

The rest sit in Hopkins (12), Minnetonka (11), Saint Louis Park (1).

4 of them name an operator in the record: Hopkins PD (3), Bet Shalom Congregation (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#13
of 198 Minnesota cities tracked
1.5%
of Minnesota’s reported cameras
Live camera map 24 reported cameras around Minnetonka Mills, Minnesota
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Minnetonka Mills
+0 this week +1 last 30 days −3 removed
  • Sep 18 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Minnetonka Mills

The readers mapped around Minnetonka Mills break down as 17 Flock Safety, 3 Genetec, 3 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Bet Shalom Congregation. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.

  • Ridgedale Drive — 3 readers
  • Ridgedale Center — 2 readers
  • Hopkins Crossroad — 2 readers
  • 11th Avenue South — 2 readers
  • 1st Street South — 1 reader
  • 12th Avenue North — 1 reader
  • Mainstreet — 1 reader
  • 17th Avenue South — 1 reader
  • Park Valley Road — 1 reader
  • 17th Avenue North — 1 reader
  • 5th Avenue North — 1 reader
  • Minnetonka — 1 reader

+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Minnetonka Mills — all on the live map above.

Minnetonka Mills in the Hennepin County picture

Hennepin County has 486 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #776 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,268,903 residents and 3,422 road miles. By road density that is 0.14 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.8% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 20 traffic, 1 entrance. Operators named on the record: Bet Shalom Congregation (1).

Camera activity around Minnetonka Mills, last 30 days

4 removed in our hourly change log for Minnetonka Mills. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.

What’s watching Minnetonka Mills

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 Minnetonka Mills — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Minnetonka Mills (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Minnetonka Mills

What you can do in Minnetonka Mills

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Cameras near Minnetonka Mills

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).