Charlotte homeless encampments 311 requests

How many 311 requests in the homeless encampments category residents of Charlotte have filed since January 2021.

Current release

Data through April 12, 2026

Data from January 2021 through April 12, 2026

Open data

Total Requests

1.6K

in the homeless encampments category

Latest Month

33

April 2026

Share of total

0.1%

of all Charlotte 311 requests

Monthly homeless encampments requests

How many homeless encampments 311 requests Charlotte residents file each month.

How this category is extracted

What counts as homeless encampments: Reports of tents, improvised shelters, or other encampments on public property.

In Charlotte’s raw 311 feed, the following 1 service_type roll into homeless encampments:

  • HOMELESS SUPPORT OUTREACH

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <charlotte_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'HOMELESS SUPPORT OUTREACH'
)

Analyst tip: Look for 'Encampment' (NYC, San Francisco), 'Homeless Encampment' (LA), 'HOMELESS EMT' (Oakland), and 'Corporate - Encampment Concerns' (Calgary). Only a handful of the cities we track publish a dedicated encampment service type — others fold encampment complaints into 'other' or general building/street categories.

See how homeless encampments is defined for every tracked city →

Source & provenance

Counts on this page are derived from Charlotte’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 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 gis.charlottenc.gov.

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