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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Balfour, North Carolina

Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Balfour — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Balfour, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Balfour itself.

The rest sit in Hendersonville (4).

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

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Reported cameras nearby
#243
of 375 North Carolina cities tracked
0.1%
of North Carolina’s reported cameras
Live camera map 4 reported cameras around Balfour, North Carolina
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 Balfour

No new reports near Balfour in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:39 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Balfour

The readers mapped around Balfour break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Dec 2025.

  • Chimney Rock Road — 1 reader
  • Haywood Road — 1 reader
  • Asheville Highway — 1 reader
  • North Main Street — 1 reader

Balfour in the Henderson County picture

Henderson County has 39 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #931 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 117,387 residents and 1,955 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 28.9% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.

What’s watching Balfour

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

What you can do in Balfour

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.

Cameras near Balfour

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