Flock Cameras in Memphis, TN: Locations, Map & Count

Memphis Police Department is the dominant operator, with 341 of the 948 mapped cameras — 36% of the metro, ahead of Germantown Police Department on 60. That lead share ranks 60th of the 251 metros BanditKin tracks, so Memphis is a concentrated network.

Private businesses appear on Memphis' map: The Home Depot (2), Lowe's (2) sit inside the twenty largest operators, and of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 4 are privately run rather than public. Those cameras are not run by any police agency, though their reads can be shared.

For the thing that actually matters when routing, Memphis is well documented: 870 of its 948 mapped cameras — 92% — record which way they face, ranking 111th of 251 on bearing coverage.

The paper trail is thin. The EFF Atlas of Surveillance documents 8 agencies using plate readers across this area, while the map records 25 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.

The network is regional rather than municipal. Beyond Memphis Police Department, the operator table runs through Germantown Police Department, Olive Branch Police Department, Collierville Police Department, Southaven Police Department and Bartlett Police Department, with the Shelby County Sheriff's Office at 47 — none of which individually dominates the metro.

Read from the live map on 13 October 2026. Since 5 October 2026 the 10-mile count moved from 292 to 294 (+2) and the metro-box count moved from 945 to 948 (+3). 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 Memphis.

Memphis ranks 57th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Chandler, AZ and Mesa, AZ, and 102nd by operator count.

On composition it ranks 60th on how much of the metro its largest operator holds (36%) and 111th on the share of cameras with a recorded bearing (92%) — 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 25 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (688 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 254 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 40 of 948 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than shown. These count cameras on the map, not purchase orders.

Look for a slim grey or black box the size of a shoebox on its own pole, usually paired with a small solar panel, at intersections and on the approaches to shopping centres. Recorded mounts around Memphis:

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

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 78 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing.

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 Tennessee 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 Memphis? Search the full map by any city.

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