Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cobbs Creek, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Cobbs Creek — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cobbs Creek, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Cobbs Creek itself.
The rest sit in Philadelphia (5).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Cobbs Creek
The readers mapped around Cobbs Creek break down as 3 Flock Safety, 2 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- South Edgewood Street — 1 reader
- Baltimore Avenue — 1 reader
- Carpenter Street — 1 reader
- Spruce Street — 1 reader
- Washington Avenue — 1 reader
Cobbs Creek in the Philadelphia County picture
Philadelphia County has 44 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2,096 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,582,432 residents and 1,017 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
Camera activity around Cobbs Creek, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Cobbs Creek. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Cobbs Creek
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 Cobbs Creek — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cobbs Creek (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cobbs Creek
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Cobbs Creek, PA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Cobbs Creek, PA
What you can do in Cobbs Creek
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 Cobbs Creek
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).