Austin street lights & signals 311 requests
Street Lights & Signals 311 requests filed in Austin since January 2021.
Current release
Data through April 30, 2026
Data from January 2021 through April 30, 2026
Source data: Socrata ↗
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Total Requests
83.2K
in the street lights & signals category
Latest Month
2.1K
April 2026
Share of total
5.9%
of all Austin 311 requests
Median Resolution
1.1d
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 defined
What counts as street lights & signals: Broken street lights, outages, damaged signs, and malfunctioning traffic signals or pedestrian crossings.
In Austin’s raw 311 data, the following 17 service_type values are counted as street lights & signals:
- AE Street Light Issue - Address
- AE Street Light Issue - No Address
- ATD - Road Markings/Striping - Maintenance
- ATD - Street Name Sign Maintenance
- ATD - Traffic Sign Emergency
- ATD - Traffic Sign Maintenance
- ATD - Traffic Sign New
- ATD - Traffic Signal - Maintenance
- ATD - Traffic Signal - Modification
- ATD - Traffic Signal - New
- TPW - Road Markings/Striping - Maintenance
- 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',
'ATD - Road Markings/Striping - Maintenance',
'ATD - Street Name Sign Maintenance',
'ATD - Traffic Sign Emergency',
'ATD - Traffic Sign Maintenance',
'ATD - Traffic Sign New',
'ATD - Traffic Signal - Maintenance',
'ATD - Traffic Signal - Modification',
'ATD - Traffic Signal - New',
'TPW - Road Markings/Striping - Maintenance',
'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 April 30, 2026. Category assignment uses an AI-generated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.austintexas.gov.