Flock & ALPR Cameras in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 37 automated license plate readers in and around Allentown — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 37 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Allentown, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 36 of them sit inside Allentown itself.
The rest sit in South Whitehall Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Allentown
The readers mapped around Allentown break down as 34 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Tilghman Street — 3 readers
- North 15th Street — 3 readers
- Hamilton Street — 3 readers
- Emaus Avenue — 2 readers
- Lehigh Street — 2 readers
- Sumner Avenue — 2 readers
- Chapel Avenue — 2 readers
- Mauch Chunk Road — 2 readers
- South Front Street — 1 reader
- South 12th Street — 1 reader
- North 6th Street — 1 reader
- Keats Street — 1 reader
+ 13 more streets and roads mapped around Allentown — all on the live map above.
Allentown PA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Allentown PA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 59 other agencies.
Allentown in the Lehigh County picture
Lehigh County has 108 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,057 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 375,408 residents and 1,964 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 11.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 24 traffic.
Camera activity around Allentown, last 30 days
7 newly reported in our hourly change log for Allentown. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Allentown
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 Allentown — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Allentown (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Allentown
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Allentown, PA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Allentown, PA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Allentown, PA
What you can do in Allentown
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 Allentown
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).