Austin sidewalks 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the sidewalks category residents of Austin have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through March 2026
Data from January 2021 through March 2026
Total Requests
5.6K
in the sidewalks category
Latest Month
321
March 2026
Share of total
0.4%
of all Austin 311 requests
Median Resolution
18.9h
half of requests close faster
Monthly sidewalks requests
How many sidewalks 311 requests Austin residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as sidewalks: Sidewalk repair and obstruction complaints, curb damage, and sidewalk snow-and-ice clearance concerns.
In Austin’s raw 311 feed, the following 2 service_type values roll into sidewalks:
- TPW - Obstruction in Right of Way
- TPW - Sidewalk Repair
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <austin_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'TPW - Obstruction in Right of Way',
'TPW - Sidewalk Repair'
)Analyst tip: Austin uses 'TPW - Sidewalk Repair' and 'TPW - Obstruction in Right of Way'. Calgary's sidewalk-snow-and-ice calls come in under 'Bylaw - Snow and Ice on Sidewalk' (separate from the equivalent roadway category). LA splits this across 'Curb Issues', 'Obstructions', and 'Report a Sidewalk Problem'.
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.