Flock & ALPR Cameras in Royal Pines, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Royal Pines — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Royal Pines, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Royal Pines itself.
The rest sit in Asheville (4), Fletcher (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Royal Pines in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:17 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Royal Pines
The readers mapped around Royal Pines break down as 5 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Aug 2025.
- Schenck Parkway — 2 readers
- Hendersonville Road — 1 reader
- Asheville — 1 reader
- McKenna Road — 1 reader
Royal Pines in the Buncombe County picture
Buncombe County has 73 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,115 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 271,790 residents and 3,290 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 27.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 street, 2 parking_entrance.
What’s watching Royal Pines
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 Royal Pines — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Royal Pines (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Royal Pines
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 Royal Pines
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).