Boston animals & pests 311 requests
Animals & Pests 311 requests filed in Boston since January 2021.
Current release
Data through April 11, 2026
Data from January 2021 through April 11, 2026
Source data: Socrata ↗
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Total Requests
83.8K
in the animals & pests category
Latest Month
354
April 2026
Share of total
5.7%
of all Boston 311 requests
Median Resolution
5.7h
half of requests close faster
Monthly animals & pests requests
How many animals & pests 311 requests Boston residents file each month.
How this category is defined
What counts as animals & pests: Complaints about loose, injured, or dead animals on public property; dog bites; wildlife concerns (coyotes, raccoons); and rodent or pest sightings.
In Boston’s raw 311 data, the following 4 service_type values are counted as animals & pests:
- Animal Generic Request
- Pest Infestation - Residential
- Pick up Dead Animal
- Rodent Activity
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <boston_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Animal Generic Request',
'Pest Infestation - Residential',
'Pick up Dead Animal',
'Rodent Activity'
)Analyst tip: Austin prefixes everything 'Animal Protection - ...'. Calgary uses 'AS -' for animal services and also files rodent calls under 'Parks - Wildlife Management'. NYC does not currently have a dedicated animal service_type in our mapping — rodent and wildlife complaints land under building or street categories in that city.
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from Boston’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through April 11, 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.boston.gov.