Flock & ALPR Cameras in Yorktown, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Yorktown — 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 Yorktown, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Yorktown itself.
The rest sit in Philadelphia (5).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Temple University Campus PA PD (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 Yorktown in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 14:31 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Yorktown
The readers mapped around Yorktown break down as 3 Genetec, 2 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Temple University Campus PA PD. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Broad Street — 2 readers
- North 13th Street — 1 reader
- West Montgomery Avenue — 1 reader
- Poplar Street — 1 reader
Yorktown 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 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Temple University Campus PA PD (2).
Camera activity around Yorktown, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Yorktown. Latest change logged Aug 25, 2026.
What’s watching Yorktown
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 Yorktown — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Yorktown (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Yorktown
What you can do in Yorktown
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 Yorktown
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).