Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lake Wylie, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 50 automated license plate readers in and around Lake Wylie — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lake Wylie, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Lake Wylie itself.
The rest sit in Charlotte (1).
11 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Lake Wylie in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:19 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lake Wylie
The readers mapped around Lake Wylie break down as 10 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- York County — 3 readers
- Charlotte Highway — 2 readers
- Carowinds Boulevard — 2 readers
- SC 274 — 1 reader
- Landing Pointe Drive — 1 reader
- Avenue of the Carolinas — 1 reader
- Pine Bluff Court — 1 reader
- Pinnacle Way — 1 reader
Lake Wylie in the York County picture
York County has 84 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,048 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 288,559 residents and 2,812 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.
What’s watching Lake Wylie
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 Lake Wylie — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lake Wylie (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Lake Wylie
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 Lake Wylie
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).