Boston street lights & signals 311 requests
Street Lights & Signals 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
81.2K
in the street lights & signals category
Latest Month
439
April 2026
Share of total
5.6%
of all Boston 311 requests
Median Resolution
2.6d
half of requests close faster
Monthly street lights & signals requests
How many street lights & signals 311 requests Boston 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 Boston’s raw 311 data, the following 4 service_type values are counted as street lights & signals:
- General Lighting Request
- Sign Repair
- Street Light Outages
- Traffic Signal Inspection
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <boston_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'General Lighting Request',
'Sign Repair',
'Street Light Outages',
'Traffic Signal Inspection'
)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 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.