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
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.