Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wells Branch, Texas
Volunteers have reported 43 automated license plate readers in and around Wells Branch — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 43 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wells Branch, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Wells Branch itself.
The rest sit in Austin (40).
7 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (4), Texas Department of Public Safety (2), The Home Depot (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 19 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Wells Branch
The readers mapped around Wells Branch break down as 41 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's, Texas Department of Public Safety, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Interstate 35 — 8 readers
- East Howard Lane — 7 readers
- West Howard Lane — 4 readers
- Domain Drive — 3 readers
- North Lamar Boulevard — 3 readers
- Payton Falls Drive — 2 readers
- Scheider Drive — 2 readers
- McCallen Pass — 2 readers
- Palm Way — 2 readers
- North Mopac Service Road — 2 readers
- West Parmer Lane — 2 readers
- Metric Boulevard — 2 readers
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Wells Branch — all on the live map above.
Wells Branch in the Travis County picture
Travis County has 412 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #978 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,307,625 residents and 4,006 road miles. By road density that is 0.10 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 36 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (4), Texas Department of Public Safety (2), The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Wells Branch, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 5 removed in our hourly change log for Wells Branch. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Wells Branch
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 Wells Branch — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wells Branch (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wells Branch
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Wells Branch, TX
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Wells Branch, TX
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Wells Branch, TX
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Wells Branch, TX
What you can do in Wells Branch
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.
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Cameras near Wells Branch
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).