Los Angeles illegal dumping 311 requests
Illegal Dumping 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 ↗
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Total Requests
979.3K
in the illegal dumping category
Latest Month
38.7K
April 2026
Share of total
11.5%
of all Los Angeles 311 requests
Median Resolution
2.9d
half of requests close faster
Monthly illegal dumping requests
How many illegal dumping 311 requests Los Angeles residents file each month.
How this category is defined
What counts as illegal dumping: Reports of bulk items, construction debris, or other materials dumped illegally on public property or in unauthorized locations.
In Los Angeles’s raw 311 data, the following 2 service_type values are counted as illegal dumping:
- Illegal Dumping Item Pickup
- Illegal Dumping Pickup
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <los_angeles_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Illegal Dumping Item Pickup',
'Illegal Dumping Pickup'
)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.
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.