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Find Flock and other license plate cameras in Iowa

806 of 884 mapped cameras are recorded as made by Flock Safety, 66 as other makers and 12 with no maker recorded. Of the mapped cameras in Iowa, 86% stand inside an incorporated city, town or village; the others are in unincorporated communities or outside any place. From one mapped camera in Iowa to the nearest other, the median gap is 800 feet. For every 10,000 residents there are 2.8 mapped cameras, on the 2020 Census count of 3,190,369 residents. Mapped cameras turn up in 73 places across Iowa, and 24 of those places have the 10 mapped cameras at which this site measures a place.

Data as of , updated weekly. The figures for Iowa last changed on .

Where in Iowa the cameras are mapped

1 to 9 cameras10 to 49 cameras50 to 199 cameras
In one square
  • 1 to 9 cameras
  • 10 to 49 cameras
  • 50 to 199 cameras

Each square is a quarter of a degree on a side, 17 miles from top to bottom, and is shaded by the number of mapped cameras inside it. A square is drawn for Iowa when the nearest place with a mapped camera is in Iowa, so the squares along the state line are approximate, and one that straddles the line counts the cameras on both sides.

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Places in Iowa with a page

So far, 4 places in Iowa have their own page. The list runs from the shortest typical distance to the longest: the distance from a typical point inside the place to the nearest mapped camera. The share is the part of the area inside the place’s boundary that lies within half a mile of one.

Places in Iowa with a page, by typical distance to the nearest mapped camera
PlaceTypical distanceArea within half a mileMapped cameras
Altoona0.3 miles81%62
Marshalltown0.4 miles69%48
Cedar Rapids0.8 miles29%79
West Des Moines0.9 miles28%69

Measured places without a page

At least 10 cameras are mapped in each of the 20 places below, enough for them to be measured the same way, but none has a page of its own. Pages are added in stages, starting where a mapped camera is typically closest. When a place gets a page of its own is set out with the list of states.

Each line gives the typical distance to the nearest mapped camera, the share of the area inside the boundary that lies within half a mile of one, and the mapped cameras inside it. The order is the same: shortest typical distance first.

  • Oelweintypically 0.3 miles · 80% of its area within half a mile · 14 camerasMap of Oelwein
  • Clivetypically 0.4 miles · 74% of its area within half a mile · 20 camerasMap of Clive
  • Storm Laketypically 0.4 miles · 70% of its area within half a mile · 18 camerasMap of Storm Lake
  • Urbandaletypically 0.4 miles · 62% of its area within half a mile · 30 camerasMap of Urbandale
  • Newtontypically 0.5 miles · 48% of its area within half a mile · 12 camerasMap of Newton
  • Ankenytypically 0.7 miles · 29% of its area within half a mile · 16 camerasMap of Ankeny
  • Clear Laketypically 0.7 miles · 32% of its area within half a mile · 10 camerasMap of Clear Lake
  • Burlingtontypically 0.8 miles · 29% of its area within half a mile · 15 camerasMap of Burlington
  • Council Bluffstypically 0.8 miles · 28% of its area within half a mile · 24 camerasMap of Council Bluffs
  • Dubuquetypically 0.8 miles · 26% of its area within half a mile · 31 camerasMap of Dubuque
  • Coralvilletypically 0.8 miles · 25% of its area within half a mile · 11 camerasMap of Coralville
  • Johnstontypically 0.9 miles · 23% of its area within half a mile · 18 camerasMap of Johnston
  • Amestypically 0.9 miles · 26% of its area within half a mile · 39 camerasMap of Ames
  • Sioux Citytypically 1 mile · 19% of its area within half a mile · 27 camerasMap of Sioux City
  • Waukeetypically 1.1 miles · 15% of its area within half a mile · 10 camerasMap of Waukee
  • Bettendorftypically 1.1 miles · 21% of its area within half a mile · 14 camerasMap of Bettendorf
  • Iowa Citytypically 1.2 miles · 20% of its area within half a mile · 29 camerasMap of Iowa City
  • Des Moinestypically 1.2 miles · 10% of its area within half a mile · 11 camerasMap of Des Moines
  • Davenporttypically 1.3 miles · 13% of its area within half a mile · 17 camerasMap of Davenport
  • Clintontypically 1.4 miles · 13% of its area within half a mile · 10 camerasMap of Clinton

Smaller places with mapped cameras

Places in Iowa with fewer than 10 mapped cameras are not measured, because a few pins say little about a whole place. These are the largest of them.

Another 19 places in Iowa have a mapped camera and are not listed here.

Who is recorded as running them

In Iowa, 387 of 884 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 44% of the cameras here.

  • Public agency354 cameras
  • Private25 cameras
  • Camera company6 cameras
  • Other2 cameras
  • Not recorded497 cameras

The kinds are read from the operator names mappers typed. A name is counted as private only when it plainly belongs to a business, an association or another private owner; a name the rules cannot place is counted as other; and where no operator is recorded the camera is not assumed to be anybody’s. The method page sets out how a name is sorted into a kind.

How these figures are worked out

Every camera here is a pin a volunteer added to OpenStreetMap, so each count is a floor. A place is its U.S. Census Bureau boundary, and a camera belongs to it when its pin falls inside. For each measured place, a grid of sample points is laid inside the boundary, and the typical distance is the median straight-line distance from those points to the nearest mapped camera of any make.