Philadelphia potholes & roads 311 requests
Potholes & Roads 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
130.2K
in the potholes & roads category
Latest Month
639
April 2026
Share of total
4.6%
of all Philadelphia 311 requests
Median Resolution
14.8d
half of requests close faster
Monthly potholes & roads requests
How many potholes & roads 311 requests Philadelphia residents file each month.
How this category is defined
What counts as potholes & roads: Potholes, failing pavement, road resurfacing requests, traffic-control issues, and (in winter cities) snow and ice control for roadways.
In Philadelphia’s raw 311 data, the following 3 service_type values are counted as potholes & roads:
- Other (Streets)
- Salting
- Street Defect
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <philadelphia_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Other (Streets)',
'Salting',
'Street Defect'
)Analyst tip: Austin prefixes with 'TPW -' for Transportation and Public Works ('TPW - Pothole Repair', 'TPW - Pavement Failure'). Calgary uses 'Roads -' as its prefix and includes 'Roads - Snow and Ice Control' here — if you're analyzing a Canadian city, expect winter months to dominate this category. Chicago splits 'Alley Pothole Complaint' from 'Pothole in Street Complaint'. NYC uses the single catch-all 'Street Condition'.
See how potholes & roads 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.