Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wilson, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 69 automated license plate readers in and around Wilson — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 70 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wilson, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 56 of them sit inside Wilson itself.
The rest sit in Saratoga (3), Stantonsburg (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
10 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 12 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 9 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 9 Axis Communications camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Wilson
The readers mapped around Wilson break down as 48 Axis Communications, 20 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Raleigh Road Parkway West — 8 readers
- Ward Boulevard — 8 readers
- US 264 Alternate — 5 readers
- Lipscomb Road East — 4 readers
- Nash Street East — 4 readers
- Forest Hills Drive West — 3 readers
- Main Street — 3 readers
- NC 42 — 2 readers
- Tarboro Street West — 2 readers
- Nash Street Northwest — 2 readers
- M.L.K. Jr Parkway — 2 readers
- I 95 — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Wilson — all on the live map above.
Wilson NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wilson NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 28 other agencies.
Wilson in the Wilson County picture
Wilson County has 38 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #556 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 78,648 residents and 1,084 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 17.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 67 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Wilson, last 30 days
7 newly reported in our hourly change log for Wilson. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Wilson
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 Wilson — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wilson (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wilson
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Wilson, NC
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Wilson, NC
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Wilson, NC
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Wilson, NC
What you can do in Wilson
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 Wilson
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).