Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mount Airy, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Mount Airy — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mount Airy, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Mount Airy itself.
The rest sit in Flat Rock (1).
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 19 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Mount Airy
The readers mapped around Mount Airy break down as 5 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Andy Griffith Parkway — 2 readers
- I 74 — 2 readers
- East Pine Street — 1 reader
- Rockford Street — 1 reader
Mount Airy in the Surry County picture
Surry County has 15 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,342 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 71,407 residents and 2,238 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 53.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
What’s watching Mount Airy
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 Mount Airy — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mount Airy (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mount Airy
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Mount Airy, NC
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Mount Airy, NC
What you can do in Mount Airy
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 Mount Airy
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).