Boston trees & parks 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the trees & parks 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
76.3K
in the trees & parks category
Latest Month
24
March 2026
Share of total
5.2%
of all Boston 311 requests
Median Resolution
2.8d
half of requests close faster
Monthly trees & parks requests
How many trees & parks 311 requests Boston residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as trees & parks: Tree trimming and removal, downed limbs, park maintenance, and urban forestry concerns.
In Boston’s raw 311 feed, the following 5 service_type values roll into trees & parks:
- Equipment Repair
- Ground Maintenance
- New Tree Requests
- Tree Emergencies
- Tree Maintenance Requests
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <boston_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Equipment Repair',
'Ground Maintenance',
'New Tree Requests',
'Tree Emergencies',
'Tree Maintenance Requests'
)Analyst tip: Chicago has the richest split: 'Tree Debris Clean-Up Request', 'Tree Emergency', 'Tree Removal Inspection', and the retired 'Tree Trim Request (NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED)' — if you're computing historical Chicago tree-trim counts, note the cutoff date. Calgary uses 'Parks - Tree Concern - GIS'. New Orleans and Somerville lump trees together with parks under 'Parks & Parkways' / 'Parks & Playgrounds'.
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.