Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rio Rancho, New Mexico
Volunteers have reported 47 automated license plate readers in and around Rio Rancho — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 47 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Rio Rancho, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 13 of them sit inside Rio Rancho itself.
The rest sit in Albuquerque (33), Corrales (1).
26 of them name an operator in the record: Albuquerque Police Department (13), Lowe's (9), The Home Depot (4). 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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No new reports near Rio Rancho in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Rio Rancho
The readers mapped around Rio Rancho break down as 34 Flock Safety, 13 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Albuquerque Police Department, Lowe's, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- New Mexico State Road 528 Northwest — 8 readers
- Westside Boulevard Southeast — 4 readers
- Ellison Road Northwest — 4 readers
- Seven Bar Loop Northwest — 3 readers
- Coors Boulevard Bypass Northwest — 3 readers
- Southern Boulevard Southeast — 3 readers
- Old Airport Road Northwest — 2 readers
- Northern Boulevard Northeast — 2 readers
- Loma Colorado Boulevard Northeast — 2 readers
- Coors Boulevard Northwest — 2 readers
- Alameda Boulevard Northwest — 2 readers
- Golf Course Road Southeast — 2 readers
+ 9 more streets and roads mapped around Rio Rancho — all on the live map above.
Rio Rancho in the Sandoval County picture
Sandoval County has 37 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,204 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 151,538 residents and 6,273 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 56.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Albuquerque Police Department (13), Lowe's (9), The Home Depot (4).
What’s watching Rio Rancho
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 Rio Rancho — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rio Rancho (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Rio Rancho
- Man accused of destroying Flock cameras in Rio Rancho facing similar charges in Bernalillo County
- Rio Rancho man accused of dismantling Flock cameras for second time
- Rio Rancho man faces felony charges after removing BernCo Flock cameras in political protest
- Rio Rancho man faces new charges in ABQ FLOCK camera damage
What you can do in Rio Rancho
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 Rio Rancho
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).