Oakland illegal dumping 311 requests

Illegal Dumping 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

152.2K

in the illegal dumping category

Latest Month

2.8K

April 2026

Share of total

28.6%

of all Oakland 311 requests

Monthly illegal dumping requests

How many illegal dumping 311 requests Oakland residents file each month.

How this category is defined

What counts as illegal dumping: Reports of bulk items, construction debris, or other materials dumped illegally on public property or in unauthorized locations.

In Oakland’s raw 311 data, the following 1 service_type are counted as illegal dumping:

  • ILLDUMP

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <oakland_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'ILLDUMP'
)

Analyst tip: LA uses 'Illegal Dumping Item Pickup', Chicago uses 'Fly Dumping Complaint', Oakland uses 'ILLDUMP', Calgary uses 'Bylaw - Material on Public Property'. Cities without a dedicated dumping service_type typically log these under street_cleaning or building_maintenance.

See how illegal dumping 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.