Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Raleigh, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 66 automated license plate readers in and around West Raleigh — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 66 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Raleigh, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside West Raleigh itself.
The rest sit in Raleigh (64).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Raleigh Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 22 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 18 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 9 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in West Raleigh
The readers mapped around West Raleigh break down as 46 Flock Safety, 14 Motorola Solutions, 3 Leonardo. Named operators in the reports: Raleigh Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Hillsborough Street — 8 readers
- Raleigh — 3 readers
- Glenwood Avenue — 3 readers
- Six Forks Road — 2 readers
- Meredith College Street — 2 readers
- Atlantic Avenue — 2 readers
- Plantation Center Drive — 2 readers
- State At North Hills Street — 2 readers
- Hodges Street — 2 readers
- Craftsman Drive — 2 readers
- Western Boulevard — 2 readers
- Barrymore Street — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around West Raleigh — all on the live map above.
West Raleigh in the Wake County picture
Wake County has 301 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,140 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,151,009 residents and 4,649 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 48 traffic. Operators named on the record: Raleigh Police Department (1).
Camera activity around West Raleigh, last 30 days
8 newly reported in our hourly change log for West Raleigh. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching West Raleigh
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 West Raleigh — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Raleigh (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around West Raleigh
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near West Raleigh, NC
- 5 new license plate readers reported around West Raleigh, NC
- 3 new license plate readers reported around West Raleigh, NC
- 3 new license plate readers reported around West Raleigh, NC
What you can do in West Raleigh
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 West Raleigh
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).