Flock Cameras in Phoenix, AZ: Locations, Map & Count

The largest fleet on the map is not the city's own. Chandler Police Department runs 109 mapped cameras against Phoenix Police Department's 80 — a pattern we have seen in Denver, where Aurora outranks Denver PD, and in Cincinnati, where the county sheriff outranks the city force.

Private businesses appear on Phoenix's map: The Home Depot (20), Lowe's (6) sit inside the twenty largest operators, and of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 7 are privately run rather than public. Those cameras are not run by any police agency, though their reads can be shared.

93% of the mapped cameras around Phoenix (1,182 of 1,271) carry a facing direction — 93rd 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 16 agencies using plate readers across this area, while the map records 24 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: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office sits in the top twelve, alongside municipal forces such as Scottsdale Police Department, Tempe Police Department, Peoria Police Department.

Read from the live map on 13 October 2026. Since 5 October 2026 the 10-mile count moved from 286 to 289 (+3) and the metro-box count moved from 1,261 to 1,271 (+10). 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 Phoenix.

Phoenix ranks 37th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Miami, FL and Cincinnati, OH, and 105th by operator count.

Its cameras-per-operator figure of 53.0 ranks 4th, its lead operator's 9% share ranks 224th, and its 93% bearing coverage ranks 93rd — all 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.

These are the 20 largest of 24 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (887 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 339 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 24 of 1,271 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.

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 Phoenix:

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

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 83 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing, and 6 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 Arizona 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 Phoenix? Search the full map by any city.

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