Austin street lights & signals 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the street lights & signals category residents of Austin have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through March 2026
Data from January 2021 through March 2026
Total Requests
51.3K
in the street lights & signals category
Latest Month
2.2K
March 2026
Share of total
3.7%
of all Austin 311 requests
Median Resolution
22.0h
half of requests close faster
Monthly street lights & signals requests
How many street lights & signals 311 requests Austin residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as street lights & signals: Broken street lights, outages, damaged signs, and malfunctioning traffic signals or pedestrian crossings.
In Austin’s raw 311 feed, the following 8 service_type values roll into street lights & signals:
- AE Street Light Issue - Address
- AE Street Light Issue - No Address
- TPW - Traffic Sign Emergency
- TPW - Traffic Sign Maintenance
- TPW - Traffic Sign New
- TPW - Traffic Signal - Maintenance
- TPW - Traffic Signal - Modification
- TPW - Traffic Signal - New
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <austin_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'AE Street Light Issue - Address',
'AE Street Light Issue - No Address',
'TPW - Traffic Sign Emergency',
'TPW - Traffic Sign Maintenance',
'TPW - Traffic Sign New',
'TPW - Traffic Signal - Maintenance',
'TPW - Traffic Signal - Modification',
'TPW - Traffic Signal - New'
)Analyst tip: Austin splits street lights ('AE Street Light Issue - Address') from traffic signals ('TPW - Traffic Signal - Maintenance') and signs ('TPW - Traffic Sign Maintenance'). Calgary uses the 'Roads -' prefix for all three. Oakland uses the terse 'ELECTRICAL' and 'TRAFFIC_ENGIN' abbreviations.
See how street lights & signals 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.