Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 37 automated license plate readers in and around Wilkinsburg — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 40 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wilkinsburg, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 16 of them sit inside Wilkinsburg itself.
The rest sit in Pittsburgh (24).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Pittsburgh Parking Authority (1). 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 Wilkinsburg in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:16 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Wilkinsburg
The readers mapped around Wilkinsburg break down as 11 Motorola Solutions, 11 of unrecorded make, 8 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Pittsburgh Parking Authority. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Penn Avenue — 11 readers
- Murray Avenue — 4 readers
- South Braddock Avenue — 4 readers
- Hill Avenue — 4 readers
- Forbes Avenue — 4 readers
- Kelly Avenue — 3 readers
- Shady Avenue — 2 readers
- Marlborough Avenue — 1 reader
- Pennwood Avenue — 1 reader
- Oakwood Street — 1 reader
- Meade Street — 1 reader
- Biddle Avenue — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Wilkinsburg — all on the live map above.
Wilkinsburg 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 39 traffic, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: Pittsburgh Parking Authority (1).
Camera activity around Wilkinsburg, last 30 days
7 newly reported in our hourly change log for Wilkinsburg. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching Wilkinsburg
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 Wilkinsburg — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wilkinsburg (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wilkinsburg
- Wilkinsburg police department receives $13K grant to upgrade street cameras, license plate readers
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Wilkinsburg, PA
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Wilkinsburg, PA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Wilkinsburg, PA
What you can do in Wilkinsburg
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 Wilkinsburg
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).