Flock Cameras in Dallas, TX: Locations, Map & Count

Dallas Police Department runs 740 mapped cameras here, 24% of the metro — 113th-highest concentration of the 251 metros tracked. Plano Police Department follows with 178.

Of the cameras with a recorded operator type around Dallas, 16 are privately operated — a small but real share of the network that no police agency runs.

For the thing that actually matters when routing, Dallas is well documented: 2,844 of its 3,043 mapped cameras — 93% — record which way they face, ranking 82nd of 251 on bearing coverage.

The paper trail is reasonably full. The EFF Atlas of Surveillance documents 25 agencies using plate readers across this area, while the map records 66 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.

Read from the live map on 13 October 2026. Since 5 October 2026 the 10-mile count moved from 790 to 810 (+20) and the metro-box count moved from 2,962 to 3,043 (+81). 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 Dallas.

Dallas ranks 6th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Oakland, CA and Chicago, IL, and 29th by operator count.

On composition it ranks 113th on how much of the metro its largest operator holds (24%) and 82nd on the share of cameras with a recorded bearing (93%) — a concentrated network.

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 66 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (2,144 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 717 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 87 of 3,043 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than shown. 2 further manufacturers fall below the eight shown. These count cameras on the map, not purchase orders.

They are easy to miss and hard to unsee — a small rectangular box on a narrow pole near a junction, generally with a solar panel and a stubby barrel lens. Where the data records how a camera around Dallas is mounted, the split is:

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

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 198 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing, and 1 is 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 Texas 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 Dallas? Search the full map by any city.

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