Flock Cameras in Fort Worth, TX: Locations, Map & Count

The operator table is headed by Fort Worth Police Department at 321 cameras (19%), then Arlington Police Department at 148. Beyond the top of the table it is a long tail: 70 separate operators in all, ranking Fort Worth 26th of 251 on operator count.

Of the cameras with a recorded operator type around Fort Worth, 8 are privately operated — a small but real share of the network that no police agency runs.

93% of the mapped cameras around Fort Worth (1,602 of 1,718) carry a facing direction — 87th 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 reasonably full. The EFF Atlas of Surveillance documents 28 agencies using plate readers across this area, while the map records 70 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 525 to 531 (+6) and the metro-box count moved from 1,699 to 1,718 (+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 Fort Worth.

Fort Worth ranks 19th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between San Jose, CA and Warren, MI, and 26th by operator count.

On composition it ranks 157th on how much of the metro its largest operator holds (19%) and 87th on the share of cameras with a recorded bearing (93%) — a spread-out network with strong direction data.

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 70 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (1,215 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 402 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 85 of 1,718 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than 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 Fort Worth is mounted, the split is:

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

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 115 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.

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