As of 13 October 2026, 421 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped within 10 miles of downtown Las Vegas (285 tagged Flock Safety), and 641 across the wider Las Vegas metro, a box roughly 50 miles across, run by 18 operators. See each one on the live map below, which way it faces and its approximate capture zone. Free, no account. BanditKin is the private app that routes around them.
BanditKin › Flock camera map › Nevada › Las Vegas, NV
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department runs the most cameras here; 95% of the 641 readers record a bearing.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department runs 197 mapped cameras here, 31% of the metro — 80th-highest concentration of the 251 metros tracked. Clark County Sheriff's Office follows with 76.
Private businesses appear on Las Vegas' map: Lowe's (38), The Home Depot (16), Fashion Show Mall (15) sit inside the twenty largest operators, and of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 2 are privately run rather than public. Those cameras are not run by any police agency, though their reads can be shared.
95% of the mapped cameras around Las Vegas (606 of 641) carry a facing direction — 67th 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 5 agencies using plate readers across this area, while the map records 18 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: Clark County Sheriff's Office sits in the top twelve, alongside municipal forces such as Station Casinos, Henderson, Henderson Police Department.
Four numbers that describe the Las Vegas network, taken from the map above on the same day.
421
Flock & ALPR cameras within 10 miles of downtown Las Vegas
641
Across the wider Las Vegas metro (50-mile box)
18
Separate operating agencies on the map
606
Cameras with a recorded facing direction
Read from the live map on 13 October 2026. Since 5 October 2026 the 10-mile count moved from 411 to 421 (+10) and the metro-box count moved from 625 to 641 (+16). 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 Las Vegas.
Upper third on size among the 251 metro areas tracked, all counted the same way on the same day.
Las Vegas ranks 81st of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Boston, MA and Virginia Beach, VA, and 143rd by operator count.
On composition it ranks 80th on how much of the metro its largest operator holds (31%) and 67th on the share of cameras with a recorded bearing (95%) — a concentrated network.
Mapped ALPR cameras
641 — 81st of 251
Separate operators on the map
18 — 143rd of 251
Cameras per operator
35.6 — 22nd of 251
Largest operator's share
31% — 80th of 251
Share with a recorded bearing
95% — 67th 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.
Who runs Las Vegas' plate readers — all 18 operators, by mapped cameras.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
197 cameras
Clark County Sheriff's Office
76 cameras
Lowe's
38 cameras
Station Casinos
34 cameras
Henderson
25 cameras
Henderson Police Department
19 cameras
The Home Depot
16 cameras
Fashion Show Mall
15 cameras
North Las Vegas Police Department
12 cameras
Boulder City, NV
7 cameras
Palms Casino Resort
7 cameras
Lvmpd (as tagged)
5 cameras
M Resort
4 cameras
Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino
3 cameras
Boulder City Police Department
1 camera
Venetian Resort Las Vegas
1 camera
Enter operator name (as tagged)
1 camera
Target
1 camera
These are all 18 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (145 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 179 cameras record no operator of any kind.
'Flock' has become shorthand for any plate reader. Around Las Vegas it is only part of the story — 70% of the vendor-tagged cameras — but Motorola Solutions accounts for 160.
Flock Safety
445 cameras
Motorola Solutions
160 cameras
Axis Communications
18 cameras
Rekor
9 cameras
Genetec
1 camera
Live view technology
1 camera
Live view
1 camera
Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 6 of 641 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than shown. These count cameras on the map, not purchase orders.
606 of the 641 mapped cameras around Las Vegas record which way they point, which is what makes routing around them possible.
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 Las Vegas is mounted, the split is:
On a dedicated pole
31 cameras
On a street lamp
17 cameras
On a post
2 cameras
On a ceiling
1 camera
One camera covers one approach, so its heading is what decides which journeys end up recorded. Around Las Vegas the mapped bearings distribute like this:
Facing southwest
101 cameras
Facing northeast
100 cameras
Facing north
82 cameras
Facing south
71 cameras
Facing west
70 cameras
Facing northwest
66 cameras
Facing southeast
60 cameras
Facing east
56 cameras
Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 35 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing.
5 agencies around Las Vegas appear in the EFF Atlas of Surveillance as ALPR users — a records count, against the 18 operators physically on the map.
In 2018 the Mesquite Police Department equipped two vehicles with automated license plate readers and began installing stationary ALPRs throughout the city.
The North Las Vegas Police Department has patrol cars equipped with automated license plate readers.
The Henderson Police Department installed 54 Motorola automated license plate readers at major intersections and in 18 patrol cars throughout November 2024. The agency has used automated license plate readers since 2011.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers. Previously it has used Vigilant Solutions technology. Vendor: Flock Safety.
The Boulder Police Department obtained ELSAG automated license plate readers in 2009. Vendor: ELSAG.
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.
The map shows where the readers are and which way they face. BanditKin's navigation turns that into a routing preference: opt-in, field-of-view-aware, with a slider for how hard to try — and an honest fallback when no clean route exists.
This page is part of the Nevada 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 Las Vegas? Search the full map by any city.
ALPR camera maps for nearby and related cities: Riverside, CA · Los Angeles, CA · Phoenix, AZ · Fresno, CA · San Diego, CA.
Get BanditKin on Google PlayAs of 13 October 2026, 421 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped within 10 miles of downtown Las Vegas, 285 of them tagged Flock Safety. Across the wider metro, a box roughly 50 miles across, the map records 641 cameras run by 18 separate operators. That is a documented floor, not a full inventory: cameras appear as people map them, and 6 carry no manufacturer tag at all.
Open the map at the top of this page: every mapped camera around Las Vegas is plotted with its capture cone where a bearing is recorded. They cluster at junctions, on arterial roads and at the entrances to shopping centres. Missing one? Report it on the map.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is the largest mapped operator with 197 cameras, ahead of Clark County Sheriff's Office's 76. Beyond them the network spreads across 16 other operators. Private operators are part of it: Lowe's (38), The Home Depot (16). The EFF Atlas of Surveillance documents 5 agencies across this area.
Avoidance runs off recorded bearings, and Las Vegas has 606 of 641 mapped cameras with one. BanditKin's navigation can route around them: it is opt-in, field-of-view-aware, and has a strength slider you control. Where no camera-free route exists it says so plainly and falls back to the normal route. This is a privacy preference — choosing not to be logged by a commercial surveillance network on public roads — and it works from public camera-location data.
The map is free and needs no account or sign-in. The data is public — OpenStreetMap, the EFF Atlas of Surveillance and community reports. The app is what adds camera-aware routing, and early users keep it free.