Los Angeles animals & pests 311 requests

Animals & Pests 311 requests filed in Los Angeles since January 2021.

Current release

Data through April 30, 2026

Data from January 2021 through April 30, 2026

Source data: Open data ↗

File a 311 request in Los Angeles → This page shows historical data only.

Total Requests

168.1K

in the animals & pests category

Latest Month

3.6K

April 2026

Share of total

2.0%

of all Los Angeles 311 requests

Median Resolution

15.4h

half of requests close faster

Monthly animals & pests requests

How many animals & pests 311 requests Los Angeles residents file each month.

How this category is defined

What counts as animals & pests: Complaints about loose, injured, or dead animals on public property; dog bites; wildlife concerns (coyotes, raccoons); and rodent or pest sightings.

In Los Angeles’s raw 311 data, the following 5 service_type values are counted as animals & pests:

  • Animal Complaint/Violation
  • Animal Confined
  • Animal Loose
  • Dead Animal Removal
  • Nuisance Barking Dogs

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <los_angeles_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'Animal Complaint/Violation',
  'Animal Confined',
  'Animal Loose',
  'Dead Animal Removal',
  'Nuisance Barking Dogs'
)

Analyst tip: Austin prefixes everything 'Animal Protection - ...'. Calgary uses 'AS -' for animal services and also files rodent calls under 'Parks - Wildlife Management'. NYC does not currently have a dedicated animal service_type in our mapping — rodent and wildlife complaints land under building or street categories in that city.

See how animals & pests is defined for every tracked city →

Source & provenance

Counts on this page are derived from Los Angeles’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through April 30, 2026. Category assignment uses an AI-generated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.lacity.org.