Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sylva, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Sylva — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sylva, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Sylva itself.
The rest sit in Dillsboro (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Sylva in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Sylva
The readers mapped around Sylva break down as 2 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Haywood Road — 2 readers
- Webster Road — 1 reader
- East Main Street — 1 reader
Sylva in the Jackson County picture
Jackson County has 28 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #319 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 14.9% nationally. That’s across 43,089 residents and 3,026 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 45.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Sylva
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 Sylva — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sylva (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sylva
What you can do in Sylva
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 Sylva
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).