Cleveland illegal dumping 311 requests

How many 311 requests in the illegal dumping category residents of Cleveland have filed since March 2024.

Current release

Data through April 11, 2026

Data from March 2024 through April 11, 2026

ArcGIS

Total Requests

7.0K

in the illegal dumping category

Latest Month

205

April 2026

Share of total

5.4%

of all Cleveland 311 requests

Median Resolution

5.6d

half of requests close faster

Monthly illegal dumping requests

How many illegal dumping 311 requests Cleveland 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 Cleveland’s raw 311 feed, the following 1 service_type roll into illegal dumping:

  • Illegal Dumping

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <cleveland_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'Illegal Dumping'
)

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.

See how illegal dumping is defined for every tracked city →

Source & provenance

Counts on this page are derived from Cleveland’s official open 311 data feed, covering March 2024 through April 11, 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 services3.arcgis.com.

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