Flock Cameras in Cleveland, OH: Locations, Map & Count

Cleveland Division of Police runs 123 mapped cameras here, 9% of the metro — 223rd-highest concentration of the 251 metros tracked. Independence Police Department follows with 39.

Not every reader here belongs to a public body. The Home Depot (15) appears among the largest operators, and 32 of the cameras carrying an operator type are recorded as private.

92% of the mapped cameras around Cleveland (1,269 of 1,386) carry a facing direction — 115th of the 251 tracked metros. Bearings are what make camera-aware routing possible, so the higher that share, the more the avoidance layer can do here.

Public records cover 45 agencies around Cleveland in the EFF Atlas of Surveillance against 89 operators on the map — the difference between a records project and a mapping project, not a contradiction.

Read from the live map on 13 October 2026. Since 5 October 2026 the 10-mile count moved from 639 to 643 (+4) and the metro-box count moved from 1,381 to 1,386 (+5). 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 Cleveland.

Cleveland ranks 31st of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Minneapolis, MN and Overland Park, KS, and 18th by operator count.

Its cameras-per-operator figure of 15.6 ranks 121st, its lead operator's 9% share ranks 223rd, and its 92% bearing coverage ranks 115th — 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 89 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (976 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 360 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 345 of 1,386 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 Cleveland:

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

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 112 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing, and 5 are tagged as omnidirectional.

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 Ohio 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 Cleveland? Search the full map by any city.

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