San Francisco street cleaning 311 requests

How many 311 requests in the street cleaning category residents of San Francisco have filed since April 2021.

Current release

Data through March 2026

Data from April 2021 through March 2026

Open data

Total Requests

1.7M

in the street cleaning category

Latest Month

26.6K

March 2026

Share of total

44.2%

of all San Francisco 311 requests

Median Resolution

13.7h

half of requests close faster

Monthly street cleaning requests

How many street cleaning 311 requests San Francisco residents file each month.

How this category is extracted

What counts as street cleaning: Street sweeping, debris removal from public right-of-way, and litter in public spaces.

In San Francisco’s raw 311 feed, the following 2 service_type values roll into street cleaning:

  • Litter Receptacle Maintenance
  • Street and Sidewalk Cleaning

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <san_francisco_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'Litter Receptacle Maintenance',
  'Street and Sidewalk Cleaning'
)

Analyst tip: Austin uses 'ARR - Street Sweeping' (Austin Resource Recovery — the sanitation department). Calgary has both 'Roads - Debris on Street/Sidewalk/Boulevard' and 'WRS - Debris in Backlane'. NYC's 'Dirty Condition' lands here. Oakland uses 'CUT_CLEAN' and 'STREETSW'.

See how street cleaning 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 March 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 data.sfgov.org.

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