Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Gastonia, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around South Gastonia — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Gastonia, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside South Gastonia itself.
The rest sit in Gastonia (19).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in South Gastonia
The readers mapped around South Gastonia break down as 19 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Union Road — 2 readers
- Mountain View Street — 2 readers
- Linwood Road — 2 readers
- South Marietta Street — 2 readers
- Neal Hawkins Road — 2 readers
- East Hudson Boulevard — 2 readers
- River Ridge Drive — 1 reader
- Plantation Trail — 1 reader
- Lyon Street — 1 reader
- Crowders Creek Road — 1 reader
- Little Mountain Road — 1 reader
- South Myrtle School Road — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around South Gastonia — all on the live map above.
South Gastonia in the Gaston County picture
Gaston County has 89 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #772 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 231,485 residents and 2,085 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 19 traffic.
Camera activity around South Gastonia, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for South Gastonia. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching South Gastonia
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 South Gastonia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Gastonia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around South Gastonia
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South Gastonia, NC
- 3 new license plate readers reported around South Gastonia, NC
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South Gastonia, NC
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South Gastonia, NC
What you can do in South Gastonia
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.
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Cameras near South Gastonia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).