Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ben Avon, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Ben Avon — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ben Avon, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Ben Avon itself.
The rest sit in Ohio Township (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Ben Avon in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Ben Avon
The readers mapped around Ben Avon break down as 2 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- Home Depot Drive — 2 readers
Ben Avon in the Allegheny County picture
Allegheny County has 446 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #855 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,240,476 residents and 5,421 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (2).
What’s watching Ben Avon
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 Ben Avon — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ben Avon (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Ben Avon
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 Ben Avon
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).