Flock & ALPR Cameras in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 56 automated license plate readers in and around Chapel Hill — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 56 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Chapel Hill, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 37 of them sit inside Chapel Hill itself.
The rest sit in Durham (17).
20 of them name an operator in the record: UNC Chapel Hill Police Department (14), Flock Safety (2), Lowe's (2), Target Corporation (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 23 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Chapel Hill
The readers mapped around Chapel Hill break down as 53 Flock Safety, 1 Turing.ai. Named operators in the reports: UNC Chapel Hill Police Department, Flock Safety, Lowe's, Target Corporation. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Renaissance Parkway — 7 readers
- Fayetteville Road — 6 readers
- Cosgrove Avenue — 4 readers
- Manning Drive — 3 readers
- Dobbins Drive — 2 readers
- Sage Road — 2 readers
- Friday Center Drive — 2 readers
- South Road — 2 readers
- Ridge Road — 2 readers
- Raleigh Street — 2 readers
- East Franklin Street — 2 readers
- Mount Moriah Road — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Chapel Hill — all on the live map above.
Chapel Hill in the Orange County picture
Orange County has 30 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,365 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 147,292 residents and 1,424 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 28.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 32 traffic, 1 parking, 1 residential. Operators named on the record: UNC Chapel Hill Police Department (14), Flock Safety (2), Lowe's (2).
Camera activity around Chapel Hill, last 30 days
6 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Chapel Hill. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Chapel Hill
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 Chapel Hill — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Chapel Hill (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Chapel Hill
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 Chapel Hill
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).