Philadelphia abandoned vehicles 311 requests

Abandoned Vehicles 311 requests filed in Philadelphia since January 2021.

Current release

Data through April 12, 2026

Data from January 2021 through April 12, 2026

Source data: CARTO ↗

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Total Requests

153.8K

in the abandoned vehicles category

Latest Month

410

April 2026

Share of total

5.5%

of all Philadelphia 311 requests

Median Resolution

243.8d

half of requests close faster

Monthly abandoned vehicles requests

How many abandoned vehicles 311 requests Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia’s raw 311 data, the following 1 service_type are counted as abandoned vehicles:

  • Abandoned Vehicle

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <philadelphia_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'Abandoned Vehicle'
)

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 Philadelphia’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through April 12, 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 phl.carto.com.