Los Angeles homeless encampments 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the homeless encampments category residents of Los Angeles have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through March 2026
Data from January 2021 through March 2026
Total Requests
390.5K
in the homeless encampments category
Latest Month
8.8K
March 2026
Share of total
4.7%
of all Los Angeles 311 requests
Median Resolution
26.2d
half of requests close faster
Monthly homeless encampments requests
How many homeless encampments 311 requests Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles’s raw 311 feed, the following 1 service_type roll into homeless encampments:
- Homeless Encampment
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <los_angeles_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Homeless Encampment'
)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 Los Angeles’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.lacity.org.