Flock & ALPR Cameras in Knightdale, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 46 automated license plate readers in and around Knightdale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 46 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Knightdale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 31 of them sit inside Knightdale itself.
The rest sit in Raleigh (7).
8 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Knightdale in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Knightdale
The readers mapped around Knightdale break down as 42 Flock Safety, 3 Axis Communications, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Needwill Court — 3 readers
- Hinton Oaks Boulevard — 2 readers
- Wide Waters Parkway — 2 readers
- McKnight Drive — 2 readers
- 7304 — 2 readers
- Harbour Towne Drive — 2 readers
- Parkside Commons Drive — 2 readers
- Knightdale Boulevard — 2 readers
- Buffaloe Road — 2 readers
- Whistle Post Way — 1 reader
- Steeple Square Court — 1 reader
- Princeton Park Avenue — 1 reader
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Knightdale — all on the live map above.
Knightdale NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Knightdale NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 47 other agencies.
Knightdale in the Wake County picture
Wake County has 301 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,140 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,151,009 residents and 4,649 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 38 traffic, 1 entrance, 1 parking.
Camera activity around Knightdale, last 30 days
9 newly reported, 6 removed in our hourly change log for Knightdale. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching Knightdale
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 Knightdale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Knightdale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Knightdale
- 6 license plate readers reported removed near Knightdale, NC
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Knightdale, NC
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Knightdale, NC
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Knightdale, NC
What you can do in Knightdale
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 Knightdale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).