Flock & ALPR cameras in Dallas, TX

Read from the live map on 3 September 2026. 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 4th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Anaheim, CA and Oakland, CA, and 28th by operator count.

On composition it ranks 142nd on how much of the metro its largest operator holds (22%) and 116th on the share of cameras with a recorded bearing (91%) — a spread-out network with strong direction data.

Ranked against the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks, every one read from the live map on 3 September 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 67 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (2,424 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 674 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 103 of 3,278 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. 285 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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