San Francisco street lights & signals 311 requests

How many 311 requests in the street lights & signals 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

20.3K

in the street lights & signals category

Latest Month

502

March 2026

Share of total

0.5%

of all San Francisco 311 requests

Median Resolution

2.9d

half of requests close faster

Monthly street lights & signals requests

How many street lights & signals 311 requests San Francisco 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 San Francisco’s raw 311 feed, the following 1 service_type roll into street lights & signals:

  • Streetlights

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <san_francisco_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'Streetlights'
)

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 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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