Buffalo street cleaning 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the street cleaning 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
9.2K
in the street cleaning category
Latest Month
60
April 2026
Share of total
6.1%
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 extracted
What counts as street cleaning: Street sweeping, debris removal from public right-of-way, and litter in public spaces.
In Buffalo’s raw 311 feed, the following 3 service_type values roll into 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'.
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.