San Francisco homeless encampments 311 requests
Homeless Encampments 311 requests filed in San Francisco since April 2021.
Current release
Data through April 30, 2026
Data from April 2021 through April 30, 2026
Source data: Open data ↗
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Total Requests
103.6K
in the homeless encampments category
Latest Month
5.5K
April 2026
Share of total
2.7%
of all San Francisco 311 requests
Median Resolution
20.6h
half of requests close faster
Monthly homeless encampments requests
How many homeless encampments 311 requests San Francisco residents file each month.
How this category is defined
What counts as homeless encampments: Reports of tents, improvised shelters, or other encampments on public property.
In San Francisco’s raw 311 data, the following 2 service_type values are counted as homeless encampments:
- Encampment
- General Request
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <san_francisco_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Encampment',
'General Request'
)Analyst tip: Look for 'Encampment' (NYC, San Francisco), 'Homeless Encampment' (LA), 'HOMELESS EMT' (Oakland), and 'Corporate - Encampment Concerns' (Calgary). Only a handful of the cities we track publish a dedicated encampment service type — others fold encampment complaints into 'other' or general building/street categories.
See how homeless encampments is defined for every tracked city →
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from San Francisco’s official open 311 data feed, covering April 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.sfgov.org.