Flock Cameras in Birmingham, AL: Locations, Map & Count

The operator table is headed by Birmingham Police Department at 158 cameras (15%), then Jefferson County Sheriff's Office at 46. Beyond the top of the table it is a long tail: 52 separate operators in all, ranking Birmingham 44th of 251 on operator count.

Of the cameras with a recorded operator type around Birmingham, 7 are privately operated — a small but real share of the network that no police agency runs.

For the thing that actually matters when routing, Birmingham is well documented: 913 of its 1,039 mapped cameras — 88% — record which way they face, ranking 166th of 251 on bearing coverage.

The paper trail is reasonably full. The EFF Atlas of Surveillance documents 20 agencies using plate readers across this area, while the map records 52 distinct operators. That is a records gap rather than an absence of cameras, and it is why this page leans on mapped counts rather than agency filings.

Sheriff's offices are prominent: Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and Shelby County Sheriff's Office sit in the top twelve, alongside municipal forces such as Pelham Police Department, Clay Police Department, Hoover Police Department.

Read from the live map on 13 October 2026. Since 5 October 2026 the 10-mile count moved from 501 to 526 (+25) and the metro-box count moved from 985 to 1,039 (+54). The underlying records are OpenStreetMap entries plus community submissions — nobody who operates a camera is obliged to declare it, so these are the documented minimum rather than the full picture. The metro is a box roughly 50 miles across centred on Birmingham.

Birmingham ranks 54th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC, and 44th by operator count.

Its cameras-per-operator figure of 20.0 ranks 85th, its lead operator's 15% share ranks 184th, and its 88% bearing coverage ranks 166th — all of 251.

Ranked against the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks, every one read from the live map on 13 October 2026. Metro areas are drawn as a box around the city centre, so neighbouring metros can share cameras and these counts must never be added together.

These are the 20 largest of 52 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (731 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 296 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 17 of 1,039 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than shown. These count cameras on the map, not purchase orders.

Most readers sit on a dedicated pole a few metres up, angled at one lane of traffic, with a solar panel above. Where the mount is recorded around Birmingham:

One camera covers one approach, so its heading is what decides which journeys end up recorded. Around Birmingham the mapped bearings distribute like this:

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 126 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing.

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.

This page is part of the Alabama camera hub, which counts every camera inside the state line rather than by metro box. New to this? Read what ALPR cameras capture, how long it is kept, and who can search it. Not in Birmingham? Search the full map by any city.

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