Flock & ALPR Cameras in Elon, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Elon — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Elon, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Elon itself.
The rest sit in Burlington (12), Gibsonville (1).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (5). 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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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Elon
The readers mapped around Elon break down as 18 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Tribek Drive — 3 readers
- Huffman Mill Road — 3 readers
- West Haggard Avenue — 2 readers
- Holly Hill Lane — 1 reader
- Burlington — 1 reader
- University Drive — 1 reader
- Garden Road — 1 reader
- Shallowford Church Road — 1 reader
- South Williamson Avenue — 1 reader
- South Oak Avenue — 1 reader
- Danbrook Road — 1 reader
- Bonnar Bridge Parkway — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Elon — all on the live map above.
Elon NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Elon NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 1 other agencies.
Elon in the Alamance County picture
Alamance County has 62 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #869 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 174,286 residents and 1,824 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 18.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (5).
What’s watching Elon
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 Elon — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Elon (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Elon
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 Elon
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).