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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Aiken, South Carolina

Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Aiken — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Aiken, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Aiken itself.

The rest sit in Windsor (1).

1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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10
Reported cameras nearby
#62
of 202 South Carolina cities tracked
0.5%
of South Carolina’s reported cameras
Live camera map 10 reported cameras around Aiken, South Carolina
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Aiken

No new reports near Aiken in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Aiken

The readers mapped around Aiken break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Whiskey Road — 2 readers
  • Edgefield Highway — 2 readers
  • Charleston Highway — 1 reader
  • East Pine Log Road — 1 reader
  • Aldrich Street — 1 reader
  • Aldrich Street Northeast — 1 reader
  • Columbia Highway North — 1 reader
  • Aiken — 1 reader

Aiken in the Aiken County picture

Aiken County has 9 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,970 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 171,949 residents and 4,202 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 78.9% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic.

Camera activity around Aiken, last 30 days

2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Aiken. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.

What’s watching Aiken

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 Aiken — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Aiken (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Aiken

What you can do in Aiken

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.

Cameras near Aiken

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).