Flock & ALPR Cameras in Urbancrest, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 26 automated license plate readers in and around Urbancrest — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 26 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Urbancrest, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Urbancrest itself.
The rest sit in Grove City (15), Columbus (7), Franklin Township (1), Jackson Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Urbancrest in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 03:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Urbancrest
The readers mapped around Urbancrest break down as 26 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Home Road — 4 readers
- Urbancrest Industrial Drive — 3 readers
- Gateway Lakes Drive — 2 readers
- Southwestern Road — 2 readers
- Stringtown Road — 2 readers
- Alkire Road — 2 readers
- Georgesville Square Drive — 1 reader
- Buckeye Parkway — 1 reader
- Broadway — 1 reader
- Holt Road — 1 reader
- Jackson Pike — 1 reader
- Norton Road — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Urbancrest — all on the live map above.
Urbancrest in the Franklin County picture
Franklin County has 580 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #641 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,321,635 residents and 3,317 road miles. By road density that is 0.17 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic.
What’s watching Urbancrest
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 Urbancrest — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Urbancrest (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Urbancrest
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 Urbancrest
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).