Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hampton, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 102 automated license plate readers in and around Hampton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 101 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hampton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 95 of them sit inside Hampton itself.
The rest sit in Norfolk (6).
84 of them name an operator in the record: Hampton Police Division (70), Hampton University Police Department (6), Lowe's (4), Norfolk Police Department (4). 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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- Sep 10 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 9 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 9 Axis Communications camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hampton
The readers mapped around Hampton break down as 81 Flock Safety, 9 Axis Communications, 8 Ekin. Named operators in the reports: Hampton Police Division, Hampton University Police Department, Norfolk Police Department, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West Mercury Boulevard — 19 readers
- Coliseum Drive — 10 readers
- Cunningham Drive — 7 readers
- North Armistead Avenue — 6 readers
- Power Plant Parkway — 5 readers
- South Mallory Street — 4 readers
- Todds Lane — 4 readers
- Hampton Roads Center Parkway — 4 readers
- Settlers Landing Road — 3 readers
- Hardy Cash Drive — 3 readers
- Big Bethel Road — 2 readers
- North King Street — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Hampton — all on the live map above.
Hampton VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hampton VA PD runs 56 cameras of its own, has logged 445 plate-database searches, has captured 460,612 vehicle records. Its network connects to 18 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Hampton in the Hampton city picture
Hampton city has 139 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #100 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 4.6% nationally. That’s across 137,334 residents and 575 road miles. By road density that is 0.24 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 96 traffic. Operators named on the record: Hampton Police Division (70), Hampton University Police Department (6), Norfolk Police Department (4).
Camera activity around Hampton, last 30 days
13 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Hampton. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Hampton
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 Hampton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hampton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hampton
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Hampton, VA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Hampton, VA
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Hampton, VA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Hampton, VA
What you can do in Hampton
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 Hampton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).