Flock & ALPR Cameras in Holmesburg, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Holmesburg — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Holmesburg, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Holmesburg itself.
The rest sit in Philadelphia (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Holmesburg in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Holmesburg
The readers mapped around Holmesburg break down as 3 Motorola Solutions. Every report here dates to Aug 2026.
- Torresdale Avenue — 2 readers
- Shelmire Avenue — 1 reader
Holmesburg 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 3 traffic.
Camera activity around Holmesburg, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Holmesburg. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching Holmesburg
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 Holmesburg — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Holmesburg (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Holmesburg
What you can do in Holmesburg
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.
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Cameras near Holmesburg
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).