Austin potholes & roads 311 requests

How many 311 requests in the potholes & roads category residents of Austin have filed since January 2021.

Current release

Data through March 2026

Data from January 2021 through March 2026

Socrata

Total Requests

6.9K

in the potholes & roads category

Latest Month

384

March 2026

Share of total

0.5%

of all Austin 311 requests

Median Resolution

16.1h

half of requests close faster

Monthly potholes & roads requests

How many potholes & roads 311 requests Austin residents file each month.

How this category is extracted

What counts as potholes & roads: Potholes, failing pavement, road resurfacing requests, traffic-control issues, and (in winter cities) snow and ice control for roadways.

In Austin’s raw 311 feed, the following 3 service_type values roll into potholes & roads:

  • TPW - Pavement Failure
  • TPW - Pothole Repair
  • TPW - Street Resurfacing

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <austin_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'TPW - Pavement Failure',
  'TPW - Pothole Repair',
  'TPW - Street Resurfacing'
)

Analyst tip: Austin prefixes with 'TPW -' for Transportation and Public Works ('TPW - Pothole Repair', 'TPW - Pavement Failure'). Calgary uses 'Roads -' as its prefix and includes 'Roads - Snow and Ice Control' here — if you're analyzing a Canadian city, expect winter months to dominate this category. Chicago splits 'Alley Pothole Complaint' from 'Pothole in Street Complaint'. NYC uses the single catch-all 'Street Condition'.

See how potholes & roads is defined for every tracked city →

Source & provenance

Counts on this page are derived from Austin’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through March 2026. Category assignment uses a hand-curated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.austintexas.gov.

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