Chicago parking 311 requests

How many 311 requests in the parking category residents of Chicago have filed since January 2021.

Current release

Data through April 12, 2026

Data from January 2021 through April 12, 2026

Open data

Total Requests

53.1K

in the parking category

Latest Month

1.2K

April 2026

Share of total

0.6%

of all Chicago 311 requests

Median Resolution

2.4h

half of requests close faster

Monthly parking requests

How many parking 311 requests Chicago residents file each month.

How this category is extracted

What counts as parking: Enforcement complaints about illegally parked vehicles, blocked driveways, parking meter issues, and parking-sign maintenance. Distinct from `abandoned_vehicles`, which is about long-term neglect rather than enforcement.

In Chicago’s raw 311 feed, the following 2 service_type values roll into parking:

  • E-Scooter Parking Complaint
  • Finance Parking Code Enforcement Review

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <chicago_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'E-Scooter Parking Complaint',
  'Finance Parking Code Enforcement Review'
)

Analyst tip: Austin prefixes with 'TPW - Parking' (Transportation and Public Works). NYC uses 'Blocked Driveway' and 'Illegal Parking'. LA has a broad 'Parking Issues' plus 'Dockless Mobility Enforcement' for scooter parking. Oakland simply uses 'PARKING'. Note: abandoned vehicles are a SEPARATE category in this dataset.

See how parking is defined for every tracked city →

Source & provenance

Counts on this page are derived from Chicago’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 data.cityofchicago.org.

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