Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cornelius, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Cornelius — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cornelius, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Cornelius itself.
The rest sit in Davidson (8), Huntersville (7).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Cornelius in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Cornelius
The readers mapped around Cornelius break down as 14 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Griffith Street — 2 readers
- Birkdale Commons Parkway — 2 readers
- Potts Street — 2 readers
- Cranlyn Road — 2 readers
- Woodlands Trail Drive — 2 readers
- Catawba Avenue — 1 reader
- Schooner Drive — 1 reader
- West Catawba Avenue — 1 reader
- Northcross Center Court — 1 reader
- Statesville Road — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
- Lindholm Drive — 1 reader
Cornelius NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cornelius NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 3 other agencies.
Cornelius in the Mecklenburg County picture
Mecklenburg County has 285 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,176 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,130,906 residents and 3,682 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic.
Camera activity around Cornelius, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Cornelius. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching Cornelius
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 Cornelius — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cornelius (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cornelius
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Cornelius, NC
- On the agenda: Cornelius Board of Commissioners - Aug 04, 2026 — Flock Camera (Aug 4)
What you can do in Cornelius
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 Cornelius
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).