New York City street cleaning 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the street cleaning category residents of New York City have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through March 2026
Data from January 2021 through March 2026
Total Requests
241.7K
in the street cleaning category
Latest Month
7.8K
March 2026
Share of total
1.4%
of all New York City 311 requests
Median Resolution
1.2d
half of requests close faster
Monthly street cleaning requests
How many street cleaning 311 requests New York City residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as street cleaning: Street sweeping, debris removal from public right-of-way, and litter in public spaces.
In New York City’s raw 311 feed, the following 1 service_type roll into street cleaning:
- Dirty Condition
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <new_york_city_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Dirty Condition'
)Analyst tip: Austin uses 'ARR - Street Sweeping' (Austin Resource Recovery — the sanitation department). Calgary has both 'Roads - Debris on Street/Sidewalk/Boulevard' and 'WRS - Debris in Backlane'. NYC's 'Dirty Condition' lands here. Oakland uses 'CUT_CLEAN' and 'STREETSW'.
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from New York City’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.cityofnewyork.us.