Flock & ALPR Cameras in Martinsville, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Martinsville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Martinsville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 19 of them sit inside Martinsville itself.
The rest sit in Villa Heights (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
Need this city’s camera data? Custom extracts are free for researchers, journalists and advocates. Ask for it.
No new reports near Martinsville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:34 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Martinsville
The readers mapped around Martinsville break down as 21 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Memorial Boulevard South — 3 readers
- Commonwealth Boulevard West — 3 readers
- Memorial Boulevard North — 2 readers
- Clearview Drive — 2 readers
- Commonwealth Boulevard — 2 readers
- Cleveland Avenue — 2 readers
- West Church Street — 1 reader
- East Church Street — 1 reader
- Pony Place — 1 reader
- Fayette Street — 1 reader
- Liberty Street — 1 reader
- Spruce Street — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Martinsville — all on the live map above.
Martinsville VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Martinsville VA PD runs 41 cameras of its own, has logged 47 plate-database searches, has captured 103,207 vehicle records. Its network connects to 25 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Martinsville in the Martinsville city picture
Martinsville city has 13 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #117 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 5.4% nationally. That’s across 13,584 residents and 113 road miles. By road density that is 0.11 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 21 traffic.
Camera activity around Martinsville, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Martinsville. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Martinsville
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 Martinsville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Martinsville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Martinsville
- 588 CLEARVIEW DR, Martinsville, VA 24112
- Martinsville school system first in Virginia with full gunshot detection
What you can do in Martinsville
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 Martinsville
← All Virginia cameras, counties & cities
Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).