New York City abandoned vehicles 311 requests
Abandoned Vehicles 311 requests filed in New York City 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
544.1K
in the abandoned vehicles category
Latest Month
10.0K
April 2026
Share of total
3.2%
of all New York City 311 requests
Median Resolution
5.0h
half of requests close faster
Monthly abandoned vehicles requests
How many abandoned vehicles 311 requests New York City residents file each month.
How this category is defined
What counts as abandoned vehicles: Reports of vehicles left unattended for extended periods on public streets or in other public spaces, including derelict cars and vehicle abatement complaints. This page shows aggregate complaint counts and trends across cities. To report an abandoned vehicle, use your city's official 311 service directly—response times and whether the vehicle is ultimately towed vary significantly by city, as the data here illustrates.
In New York City’s raw 311 data, the following 2 service_type values are counted as abandoned vehicles:
- Abandoned Vehicle
- Derelict Vehicles
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <new_york_city_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Abandoned Vehicle',
'Derelict Vehicles'
)Analyst tip: Look for service_type values containing 'Abandoned' or 'Derelict' (NYC, New Orleans), 'ABANDONED AUTO' (Oakland), and Austin's 'APD - Vehicle Abatement' prefix. Chicago uses the exact string 'Abandoned Vehicle Complaint'.
See how abandoned vehicles is defined for every tracked city →
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from New York City’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.cityofnewyork.us.