Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mint Hill, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 36 automated license plate readers in and around Mint Hill — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 36 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mint Hill, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside Mint Hill itself.
The rest sit in Charlotte (17), Stallings (2), Matthews (1), Midland (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (2). 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 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Mint Hill
The readers mapped around Mint Hill break down as 35 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Albemarle Road — 5 readers
- Lawyers Road — 4 readers
- Fairview Road — 4 readers
- Margaret Wallace Road — 2 readers
- Idlewild Road — 2 readers
- Wilgrove-Mint Hill Road — 2 readers
- Ludell Lane — 2 readers
- Alanbrook Road — 2 readers
- Jewelflower Road — 2 readers
- Pleasant Run Drive — 2 readers
- NC 218 — 1 reader
- Blair Road — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Mint Hill — all on the live map above.
Mint Hill NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mint Hill NC PD runs 19 cameras of its own, has logged 139 plate-database searches, has captured 300,078 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,865 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: 18th Judicial District Drug Task Force - TN PD, Abbeville SC PD, Aberdeen NC PD, Abilene KS PD, Abington Township PA PD, Accomack County VA SO, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO.
Mint Hill 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 26 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (2).
Camera activity around Mint Hill, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Mint Hill. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Mint 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 Mint Hill — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mint Hill (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mint Hill
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Mint Hill, NC
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Mint Hill, NC
What you can do in Mint 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 Mint Hill
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).