Oakland building & housing maintenance 311 requests

Building & Housing Maintenance 311 requests filed in Oakland since January 2021.

Current release

Data through April 30, 2026

Data from January 2021 through April 30, 2026

Source data: Socrata ↗

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Total Requests

30.4K

in the building & housing maintenance category

Latest Month

526

April 2026

Share of total

5.7%

of all Oakland 311 requests

Monthly building & housing maintenance requests

How many building & housing maintenance 311 requests Oakland residents file each month.

How this category is defined

What counts as building & housing maintenance: Complaints about the physical condition of buildings and housing — blight, code violations, failing plumbing and heat, unsanitary conditions, and property maintenance concerns on both residential and commercial properties.

In Oakland’s raw 311 data, the following 2 service_type values are counted as building & housing maintenance:

  • BLDGMAINT
  • ENVIRON_ENF

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <oakland_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'BLDGMAINT',
  'ENVIRON_ENF'
)

Analyst tip: This is where NYC's HPD-style housing complaints live: 'HEAT/HOT WATER', 'PLUMBING', 'PAINT/PLASTER', 'DOOR/WINDOW', 'UNSANITARY CONDITION'. Chicago uses the single catch-all 'Building Violation'. Baton Rouge uses 'BLIGHTED PROPERTIES' and 'BUILDING CODE/ZONING VIOLATIONS'. Expect this category to be large in cities with aggressive code enforcement.

See how building & housing maintenance is defined for every tracked city →

Source & provenance

Counts on this page are derived from Oakland’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.oaklandca.gov.