Surveillance spans commercial cameras, connected devices, monitoring subscriptions, law-enforcement recording systems, and the policies governing stored footage. The statistics below separate company-reported measures, industry estimates, U.S. agency survey results, and findings from specific evaluations so that scale and outcomes are not confused.
Key Surveillance Industry Statistics
The most broadly useful figures include:
- About 10 million surveillance cameras are added annually in the United States, according to a 2024–2026 industry estimate.
- India’s estimated annual camera shipments were 11 million in the 2024–2026 industry estimate.
- Oceania’s estimated annual camera shipments were 0.8 million in the 2024–2026 industry estimate.
- IP cameras represented 90% of camera revenue in 2024 in the market view cited by Axis.
- ADT reported $4.898 billion in total revenue in 2024 across its consolidated operations.
- ADT reported $4.293 billion in monitoring and related-services revenue in 2024.
- ADT reported $222.036 million in residential-video revenue in 2024.
- Arlo had shipped more than 37.4 million smart-security devices worldwide by December 31, 2024.
- Arlo had approximately 10.8 million cumulative registered accounts in more than 100 countries at December 31, 2024.
- Arlo had 4.6 million cumulative paid subscribers at December 31, 2024.
- 83.3% of U.S. general-purpose law-enforcement agencies had any recording device in 2016.
- 47.4% of U.S. general-purpose law-enforcement agencies had body-worn cameras in 2016.
- 80% of local police departments with at least 500 full-time sworn officers had acquired body-worn cameras in 2016.
- 85.9% of agencies with body-worn cameras had a formal policy or policy under development in 2016.
- 92.9% of agencies with relevant body-worn-camera policies required recording traffic stops in 2016.
- 44.8% of agencies with body-worn cameras reported zero average public footage requests per month in 2016.
- 63.3% of agencies with incomplete body-worn-camera deployment cited insufficient funding in 2016.
- Treatment officers with at least one complaint fell from 54.6% to 38.1% in the Las Vegas randomized trial.
Contents
- Market scale and connected-camera trends
- Surveillance company revenue, devices, and subscriptions
- Law-enforcement camera adoption statistics
- Body-worn-camera policy and recording practices
- Public access, privacy, storage, and deployment barriers
- Surveillance outcomes: complaints, force, arrests, and evidence
Market Scale and Connected-Camera Trends
Axis’s Axis Perspectives Report 2026 provides company-published estimates for camera activity in selected markets. These figures are estimates rather than a government census, and the 2024–2026 report period should not be read as a single-year count.
| Market measure | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. cameras added annually | 2024–2026 report estimate | About 10 million |
| India camera shipments annually | 2024–2026 report estimate | 11 million |
| Oceania camera shipments annually | 2024–2026 report estimate | 0.8 million |
The same Axis market view estimates that IP cameras represented 90% of camera revenue in 2024, while analog HD cameras represented 10%. This is a revenue mix, not a unit share, so it should not be used to infer that nine out of every ten cameras shipped were IP models. Axis Perspectives Report 2026
The geography and definitions also matter. U.S. additions, Indian shipments, and Oceania shipments are different regional measures, and the source describes them as company industry estimates rather than directly comparable official inventories.
Surveillance Company Revenue, Devices, and Subscription Statistics
Public filings show how individual surveillance businesses monetize hardware, installation, monitoring, and recurring services. They are useful indicators of business scale, but they do not represent total surveillance-industry revenue.
ADT’s consolidated revenue rose across the three reported years in its 2024 Form 10-K:
| ADT measure | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total revenue | $4.382 billion | $4.653 billion | $4.898 billion |
| Recurring monthly revenue | $3.943 billion | $4.070 billion | $4.177 billion |
In 2024, ADT reported $4.293 billion in monitoring and related-services revenue and $604.969 million in security installation, product, and other revenue. Its residential-video category generated $222.036 million, declined 13.9% from 2023 to 2024, and had average revenue per user of $153.14; that ARPU increased 8.9% year over year.
These are company-defined categories and measures. ADT Inc. 2024 Form 10-K
Arlo’s filing provides a different view centered on connected devices and accounts. From its first product launch in December 2014 through December 31, 2024, Arlo had shipped more than 37.4 million smart-security devices worldwide.
- At December 31, 2024, Arlo reported approximately 10.8 million cumulative registered accounts in more than 100 countries.
- Arlo reported 4.6 million cumulative paid subscribers at December 31, 2024.
- Arlo’s annual recurring revenue was $257.3 million at December 31, 2024; ARR is a company-defined measure, not GAAP revenue.
- Arlo’s total revenue was $510.9 million in 2024, compared with $491.2 million in 2023.
Registered accounts are cumulative and are not necessarily active households, while paid subscribers are a company-defined cumulative measure. Arlo Technologies, Inc. 2024 Form 10-K
Law-Enforcement Surveillance Adoption Statistics
The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ 2016 survey covers U.S. general-purpose law-enforcement agencies. It excludes federal and special-purpose agencies and certain jail- or court-only sheriffs’ offices, so these estimates are not a census of every public surveillance user.
| Recording device | Share of agencies in 2016 |
|---|---|
| Any recording device | 83.3% |
| Dashboard cameras | 69.0% |
| Body-worn cameras | 47.4% |
| Personal audio recorders | 38.1% |
| Other recording devices | 15.4% |
The “other” category includes agency-specified devices, including building-surveillance devices. Categories are not necessarily mutually exclusive because one agency could use several recording systems. Body-Worn Cameras in Law Enforcement Agencies, 2016
Adoption varied by agency type and size. In 2016, 48% of local police departments had acquired body-worn cameras, and 45% had started deploying them; among sheriffs’ offices, 46% had acquired them and 44% had placed them in service.
- Among local police departments with 500 or more full-time sworn officers, 80% had acquired body-worn cameras and 70% had started placing them in service.
- Among local departments employing only part-time sworn officers, 31% had both acquired and placed body-worn cameras in service.
“Acquired,” “started deploying,” and “placed in service” describe different stages, so they should not be treated as interchangeable adoption rates.
Body-Worn-Camera Policy and Recording Practices
Among agencies with body-worn cameras, 85.9% had a formal policy or a policy under development in 2016. The policy measures below describe the content of policies among agencies with a relevant policy, not all U.S. agencies.
| Policy topic | Agencies covering it, 2016 |
|---|---|
| Video transfer, storage, or disposal | 87.2% |
| Specific events to record | 84.3% |
| Upload or offload frequency | 79.8% |
| Routine supervisor review | 76.7% |
| Officer review of footage | 54.0% |
| Public release of raw footage | 45.2% |
| Informing citizens they were recorded | 40.5% |
For event-specific rules, 92.9% required recording traffic stops, while 84.5% required officer-initiated citizen contacts and 84.5% required execution of arrest or search warrants. The event categories are non-mutually exclusive, meaning a policy could require recording for multiple situations.
Other required events included firearms deployments at 84.0%, routine service calls at 78.9%, criminal investigations at 71.9%, and public-order policing at 53.7%. These figures describe written policy requirements in the 2016 BJS survey, not the share of encounters actually recorded. Body-Worn Cameras in Law Enforcement Agencies, 2016
Public Access, Privacy, Storage, and Deployment Barriers
Public access to recorded footage was uneven in the 2016 BJS survey. Among agencies with body-worn cameras, 17.7% said the public had never requested footage, while 44.8% reported zero average public footage requests per month; the latter measure could still include occasional requests.
Among agencies averaging at least one public request per month, 75% took less than two hours to produce footage, and 41% had denied public access to footage. Production time and access decisions were self-reported and depend on jurisdictional laws, exemptions, and agency procedures.
The survey also identifies operational obstacles among agencies that had acquired body-worn cameras:
- 34.7% reported privacy as an obstacle.
- 33.8% reported video-storage procedures as an obstacle.
- 32.5% reported that costs were greater than expected.
Among agencies that had not fully deployed body-worn cameras, 63.3% cited insufficient funding, 50.0% cited technology challenges, and 29.6% cited a lack of staff to handle footage. These percentages apply only to agencies reporting incomplete deployment, not to all surveyed agencies. Body-Worn Cameras in Law Enforcement Agencies, 2016
Surveillance Outcomes: Complaints, Use of Force, Arrests, and Evidence
Outcome statistics require more caution than adoption statistics because they come from specific evaluations rather than broad industry counts. The Las Vegas findings below come from a randomized controlled trial at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, with 218 treatment officers and 198 control officers.
| Group | Officers with at least one complaint before intervention | During intervention |
|---|---|---|
| Treatment officers | 54.6% | 38.1% |
| Control officers | 48.0% | 45.5% |
The treatment-group complaint share decreased 16.5 percentage points from the pre-intervention period to the intervention period. The control-group share also fell, but by a smaller amount in this trial; the study was conducted in one department with prior reforms, so the result is not a universal effect estimate for every surveillance program. The Benefits of Body-Worn Cameras: New Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
The National Institute of Justice also maintains a practice profile covering body-worn cameras’ effects on police officer behavior and a program profile for Phoenix, Arizona. Those profiles summarize specific evidence and study contexts rather than supplying a single nationwide outcome rate. Practice Profile: Body-Worn Cameras’ Effects on Police Officer Behavior Program Profile: Police Body-Worn Cameras (Phoenix, Arizona)
Taken together, the available figures describe a broad surveillance ecosystem: company estimates indicate substantial camera activity, filings show distinct hardware and subscription business models, BJS data show uneven public-agency adoption and policy coverage, and evaluation results show why measured outcomes must remain tied to the department, population, period, and research design that produced them.