Calgary illegal dumping 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the illegal dumping category residents of Calgary have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through March 2026
Data from January 2021 through March 2026
Total Requests
32.8K
in the illegal dumping category
Latest Month
703
March 2026
Share of total
1.6%
of all Calgary 311 requests
Median Resolution
7.0d
half of requests close faster
Monthly illegal dumping requests
How many illegal dumping 311 requests Calgary 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 Calgary’s raw 311 feed, the following 1 service_type roll into illegal dumping:
- Bylaw - Material on Public Property
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <calgary_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Bylaw - Material on Public Property'
)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 Calgary’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through March 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.calgary.ca.