San Jose abandoned vehicles 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the abandoned vehicles category residents of San Jose have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through April 11, 2026
Data from January 2021 through April 11, 2026
Total Requests
46.0K
in the abandoned vehicles category
Latest Month
1.1K
April 2026
Share of total
4.7%
of all San Jose 311 requests
Median Resolution
6.3d
half of requests close faster
Monthly abandoned vehicles requests
How many abandoned vehicles 311 requests San Jose residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as abandoned vehicles: Reports of vehicles left unattended for extended periods on public streets or in other public spaces, including derelict cars and vehicle abatement complaints.
In San Jose’s raw 311 feed, the following 1 service_type roll into abandoned vehicles:
- Vehicle Concerns
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <san_jose_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Vehicle Concerns'
)Analyst tip: Look for service_type values containing 'Abandoned' or 'Derelict' (NYC, New Orleans), 'ABANDONED AUTO' (Oakland), and Austin's 'APD - Vehicle Abatement' prefix. Chicago uses the exact string 'Abandoned Vehicle Complaint'.
See how abandoned vehicles is defined for every tracked city →
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from San Jose’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through April 11, 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.sanjoseca.gov.