New York City homeless encampments 311 requests
Homeless Encampments 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
381.9K
in the homeless encampments category
Latest Month
7.1K
April 2026
Share of total
2.3%
of all New York City 311 requests
Median Resolution
2.0h
half of requests close faster
Monthly homeless encampments requests
How many homeless encampments 311 requests New York City residents file each month.
How this category is defined
What counts as homeless encampments: Reports of tents, improvised shelters, or other encampments on public property.
In New York City’s raw 311 data, the following 2 service_type values are counted as homeless encampments:
- Encampment
- Homeless Person Assistance
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <new_york_city_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Encampment',
'Homeless Person Assistance'
)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 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.