Philadelphia street lights & signals 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the street lights & signals category residents of Philadelphia have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through April 12, 2026
Data from January 2021 through April 12, 2026
Total Requests
99.7K
in the street lights & signals category
Latest Month
114
April 2026
Share of total
3.6%
of all Philadelphia 311 requests
Median Resolution
6.1d
half of requests close faster
Monthly street lights & signals requests
How many street lights & signals 311 requests Philadelphia residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as street lights & signals: Broken street lights, outages, damaged signs, and malfunctioning traffic signals or pedestrian crossings.
In Philadelphia’s raw 311 feed, the following 2 service_type values roll into street lights & signals:
- Street Light Outage
- Traffic Signal Emergency
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <philadelphia_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Street Light Outage',
'Traffic Signal Emergency'
)Analyst tip: Austin splits street lights ('AE Street Light Issue - Address') from traffic signals ('TPW - Traffic Signal - Maintenance') and signs ('TPW - Traffic Sign Maintenance'). Calgary uses the 'Roads -' prefix for all three. Oakland uses the terse 'ELECTRICAL' and 'TRAFFIC_ENGIN' abbreviations.
See how street lights & signals 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 a hand-curated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at phl.carto.com.