Flock & ALPR Cameras in Belmont, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Belmont — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 28 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Belmont, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Belmont itself.
The rest sit in Charlotte (12), Mount Holly (2).
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 3 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Belmont
The readers mapped around Belmont break down as 27 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Caldwell Farm Road — 3 readers
- Belmont Mount Holly Road — 2 readers
- Hawley Avenue — 2 readers
- New Fashion Way — 2 readers
- Wandering Willow Road — 2 readers
- Nixon Road — 1 reader
- Cecilia Alexander Drive — 1 reader
- Beatty Drive — 1 reader
- Wilkinson Boulevard — 1 reader
- Shimmerlake Lane — 1 reader
- Designer Drive — 1 reader
- Style Lane — 1 reader
+ 9 more streets and roads mapped around Belmont — all on the live map above.
Belmont NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Belmont NC PD runs 2 cameras of its own, has logged 54 plate-database searches, has captured 47,264 vehicle records. Its network connects to 81 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Belmont in the Gaston County picture
Gaston County has 89 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #772 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 231,485 residents and 2,085 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 26 traffic.
What’s watching Belmont
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 Belmont — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Belmont (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Belmont
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 Belmont
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).