New Orleans street lights & signals 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the street lights & signals category residents of New Orleans have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through March 2026
Data from January 2021 through March 2026
Total Requests
47.6K
in the street lights & signals category
Latest Month
782
March 2026
Share of total
9.6%
of all New Orleans 311 requests
Median Resolution
201.8d
half of requests close faster
Monthly street lights & signals requests
How many street lights & signals 311 requests New Orleans residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as street lights & signals: Broken street lights, outages, damaged signs, and malfunctioning traffic signals or pedestrian crossings.
In New Orleans’s raw 311 feed, the following 4 service_type values roll into street lights & signals:
- Street and Traffic Signs
- Streetlights
- Traffic Safety
- Traffic Signals
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <new_orleans_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Street and Traffic Signs',
'Streetlights',
'Traffic Safety',
'Traffic Signals'
)Analyst tip: Austin splits street lights ('AE Street Light Issue - Address') from traffic signals ('TPW - Traffic Signal - Maintenance') and signs ('TPW - Traffic Sign Maintenance'). Calgary uses the 'Roads -' prefix for all three. Oakland uses the terse 'ELECTRICAL' and 'TRAFFIC_ENGIN' abbreviations.
See how street lights & signals is defined for every tracked city →
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from New Orleans’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.nola.gov.