Flock Cameras in North Carolina, County by County

The Live Statewide Camera Map

This is the crowdsourced DeFlock map, centered on North Carolina. Zoom to your town, click any marker for the vendor and direction it faces, and drag to explore. Every pin was logged by a volunteer — which is why the coverage is uneven, and why adding one is worth doing.

Live crowdsourced map from DeFlock (OpenStreetMap data), centered on North Carolina. Not loading? Open it in a new tab. Found a camera that isn’t here? Add it.

Where North Carolina Stands

All 100 counties. Green means a Flock contract has been ended; amber means it is contested; red means it is active and unchallenged so far; grey means nobody has examined the records yet. Hover any county for detail. Counties with an organizing group link straight to it.

Tiles are schematic, not to scale — each square is one county, placed roughly where it sits. Where a county holds more than one locality, the tile shows the furthest-along status and the tooltip lists them all.

Sixty-five counties are grey. That is not a gap in the data — it is the finding.

Thirty-five counties on this map have a status because someone requested the records, read a contract, or showed up at a meeting. The other sixty-five are blank because no one has yet. Cameras almost certainly operate in many of them; what is missing is any public accounting of who runs them, what they cost, and who can search them. If you live in a grey county, you can change its color. Our records-request guide has the language, and it takes about ten minutes.

Every County We’ve Examined

The full story behind each entry — votes, dollar figures, contract dates, and sources — lives on the statewide tracker.

The Counties Carrying the Most Cameras

By raw count, the deployment tracks population — the metros lead:

Normalize for population and the map turns over. Dare County — the Outer Banks — carries 12.55 cameras per 10,000 residents, roughly five times Wake’s rate, followed by Wilson, Vance, Jackson (Cullowhee and Western Carolina), and Caldwell. Small, rural, tourist, and college counties top that list, not cities.

See the full county-by-county ranking — both charts, all the per-capita math, the population figures, and an honest account of what a crowdsourced count can and cannot establish.

Flock Cameras Near Me: How to Find Them

“Are there Flock cameras near me?” is the question we get most, and the honest answer has two halves. Almost certainly yes — 2,819 have been mapped in North Carolina and the real number runs higher. And nobody is required to tell you where. No agency in this state publishes a public map of its own readers. Everything below exists because volunteers built it.

County totals are an argument. An address is a fact you can take to a council meeting. Three ways to get one:

Agencies that run Flock often publish a transparency portal listing camera counts and search totals. Boone’s went live in 2026 after residents pressed for it. If your department has one, it is the fastest primary source you’ll find; if it doesn’t, that absence is worth asking about in public.

If the map shows nothing near you, that is not an answer. It means no one has looked yet. Coverage is thinnest in exactly the rural counties where a sheriff’s office can run a dozen readers without a single public meeting about it. The fastest way to find out what is on your own roads is to ask for the records — or to go hunt for the cameras yourself.

A Camera Count Is Not the Whole Question

How many cameras a county has matters less than who can search them. A single agency’s readers are usually joined to a shared network, and one search can reach across it. When NC A&T produced its Flock audit, its sixteen campus cameras turned out to have been included in 1,390,776 searches over three months by 3,487 different organizations — overwhelmingly out of state. Sixteen cameras. (the audit · how one search reaches a thousand networks.)

So the questions worth asking your own town are not only how many, but: what is the retention period, who is on the sharing list, does an out-of-state or federal agency have access, and has anyone audited the searches? North Carolina law sets some of these limits already — including a 90-day cap on retention that at least one public university has told us in writing it does not follow.

Change Your County’s Color

Every green square on that map started red. In each case a resident read the contract, asked for the audit, and brought it to a public meeting.

Working on this in another North Carolina town? Tell us and we’ll add you to the map. info@DeFlockILM.org