Flock Cameras in Denver, CO: Locations, Map & Count

Denver Police Department is not the biggest operator around Denver. That is Aurora Police Department, with 225 mapped cameras to the city's 141; a neighbouring agency out-camera-ing the core city is common in the metros BanditKin maps.

Private businesses appear on Denver's map: The Home Depot (39) sits inside the twenty largest operators, and of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 44 are privately run rather than public. Those cameras are not run by any police agency, though their reads can be shared.

94% of the mapped cameras around Denver (1,462 of 1,555) carry a facing direction — 70th 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.

The paper trail is thin. The EFF Atlas of Surveillance documents 1 agency using plate readers across this area, while the map records 56 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: Douglas County Sheriff's Office and Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office sit in the top twelve, alongside municipal forces such as Denver Police Department, Boulder Police Department, Lakewood Police Department.

Read from the live map on 1 November 2026. Since 13 October 2026 the 10-mile count moved from 591 to 595 (+4) and the metro-box count moved from 1,536 to 1,555 (+19). 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 Denver.

Denver ranks 22nd of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Fort Worth, TX and Kansas City, MO, and 35th by operator count.

Its cameras-per-operator figure of 27.8 ranks 46th, its lead operator's 14% share ranks 186th, and its 94% bearing coverage ranks 70th — all of 251.

Ranked against the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks, every one read from the live map on 1 November 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 56 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (1,063 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 325 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 157 of 1,555 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than shown. 1 further manufacturer falls 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 Denver is mounted, the split is:

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

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 88 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 Colorado 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 Denver? Search the full map by any city.

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