Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around North Myrtle Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of North Myrtle Beach, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside North Myrtle Beach itself.
The rest sit in Briarcliffe Acres (2), Ocean Drive Beach (2).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (4). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
5 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 North Myrtle Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:17 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in North Myrtle Beach
The readers mapped around North Myrtle Beach break down as 17 Flock Safety, 1 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Water Tower Road — 4 readers
- 2nd Avenue North — 3 readers
- Sea Mountain Highway — 3 readers
- Robert Edge Parkway — 2 readers
- US Highway 17 North — 1 reader
- Old Bridge Road — 1 reader
- North Kings Highway — 1 reader
- Ashley Loop — 1 reader
- Barefoot Swing Bridge — 1 reader
- Champions Boulevard — 1 reader
North Myrtle Beach SC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, North Myrtle Beach SC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 29 other agencies.
North Myrtle Beach in the Horry County picture
Horry County has 80 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,321 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 368,937 residents and 3,567 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 26.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 18 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (4).
Camera activity around North Myrtle Beach, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for North Myrtle Beach. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching North Myrtle Beach
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 North Myrtle Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to North Myrtle Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around North Myrtle Beach
- 2 new license plate readers reported around North Myrtle Beach, SC
- The North Myrtle Beach police are watching. Inside the Real-time Crime Center (Video)
- North Myrtle Beach real time crime center gives police extra set of eyes on crime
- An inside peek at North Myrtle Beach police’s Real Time Crime Center
What you can do in North Myrtle Beach
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 North Myrtle Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).