Buffalo illegal dumping 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the illegal dumping category residents of Buffalo have filed since June 2024.
Current release
Data through April 12, 2026
Data from June 2024 through April 12, 2026
Total Requests
1.4K
in the illegal dumping category
Latest Month
24
April 2026
Share of total
1.0%
of all Buffalo 311 requests
Median Resolution
20.3h
half of requests close faster
Monthly illegal dumping requests
How many illegal dumping 311 requests Buffalo residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as illegal dumping: Reports of bulk items, construction debris, or other materials dumped illegally on public property or in unauthorized locations.
In Buffalo’s raw 311 feed, the following 1 service_type roll into illegal dumping:
- Illegal Dumping Curb
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <buffalo_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Illegal Dumping Curb'
)Analyst tip: LA uses 'Illegal Dumping Item Pickup', Chicago uses 'Fly Dumping Complaint', Oakland uses 'ILLDUMP', Calgary uses 'Bylaw - Material on Public Property'. Cities without a dedicated dumping service_type typically log these under street_cleaning or building_maintenance.
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from Buffalo’s official open 311 data feed, covering June 2024 through April 12, 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.buffalony.gov.