Boston street cleaning 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the street cleaning category residents of Boston have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through April 11, 2026
Data from January 2021 through April 11, 2026
Total Requests
253.2K
in the street cleaning category
Latest Month
1.4K
April 2026
Share of total
17.3%
of all Boston 311 requests
Median Resolution
1.8h
half of requests close faster
Monthly street cleaning requests
How many street cleaning 311 requests Boston residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as street cleaning: Street sweeping, debris removal from public right-of-way, and litter in public spaces.
In Boston’s raw 311 feed, the following 4 service_type values roll into street cleaning:
- CE Collection
- Empty Litter Basket
- Needle Pickup
- Requests for Street Cleaning
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <boston_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'CE Collection',
'Empty Litter Basket',
'Needle Pickup',
'Requests for Street Cleaning'
)Analyst tip: Austin uses 'ARR - Street Sweeping' (Austin Resource Recovery — the sanitation department). Calgary has both 'Roads - Debris on Street/Sidewalk/Boulevard' and 'WRS - Debris in Backlane'. NYC's 'Dirty Condition' lands here. Oakland uses 'CUT_CLEAN' and 'STREETSW'.
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 a hand-curated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.boston.gov.