Buffalo street cleaning 311 requests

Street Cleaning 311 requests filed in Buffalo since June 2024.

Current release

Data through April 30, 2026

Data from June 2024 through April 30, 2026

Source data: Socrata ↗

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Total Requests

9.3K

in the street cleaning category

Latest Month

197

April 2026

Share of total

6.0%

of all Buffalo 311 requests

Median Resolution

1.1d

half of requests close faster

Monthly street cleaning requests

How many street cleaning 311 requests Buffalo residents file each month.

How this category is defined

What counts as street cleaning: Street sweeping, debris removal from public right-of-way, and litter in public spaces.

In Buffalo’s raw 311 data, the following 3 service_type values are counted as street cleaning:

  • High Grass/Weeds
  • Leaves / Lawn Debris
  • Vacant Lot Cutting

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <buffalo_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'High Grass/Weeds',
  'Leaves / Lawn Debris',
  'Vacant Lot Cutting'
)

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'.

See how street cleaning is defined for every tracked city →

Source & provenance

Counts on this page are derived from Buffalo’s official open 311 data feed, covering June 2024 through April 30, 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.buffalony.gov.