Flock Cameras in Richmond, VA: Locations, Map & Count

The operator table is headed by Richmond Police Department at 114 cameras (22%), then Henrico County Police Division at 96. Beyond the top of the table it is a long tail: 20 separate operators in all, ranking Richmond 132nd of 251 on operator count.

Not every reader here belongs to a public body. Lowe's (23) appears among the largest operators, and 13 of the cameras carrying an operator type are recorded as private.

Bearing coverage — the share of cameras whose facing is recorded — is 89% around Richmond, 151st of 251. Cameras without a bearing still show on the map, but the app cannot route around them with any precision.

The paper trail is thin. The EFF Atlas of Surveillance documents 5 agencies using plate readers across this area, while the map records 20 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 Richmond Police Department, the operator table runs through Henrico County Police Division, Henrico County Division of Police, CCPD, Hopewell Police Department and Colonial Heights Police Department, with the Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office at 87 — 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 306 to 308 (+2) and the metro-box count moved from 527 to 529 (+2). 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 Richmond.

Richmond ranks 94th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Waterbury, CT and Wichita, KS, and 132nd by operator count.

Mid-table on size; 151st of 251 on bearing coverage at 89%, and 137th on lead-operator share at 22%.

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 all 20 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (207 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 86 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 29 of 529 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 Richmond is mounted, the split is:

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

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 58 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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