San Jose street lights & signals 311 requests

Street Lights & Signals 311 requests filed in San Jose since January 2021.

Current release

Data through April 11, 2026

Data from January 2021 through April 11, 2026

Source data: Socrata ↗

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Total Requests

20.5K

in the street lights & signals category

Latest Month

200

April 2026

Share of total

2.1%

of all San Jose 311 requests

Median Resolution

27.5d

half of requests close faster

Monthly street lights & signals requests

How many street lights & signals 311 requests San Jose residents file each month.

How this category is defined

What counts as street lights & signals: Broken street lights, outages, damaged signs, and malfunctioning traffic signals or pedestrian crossings.

In San Jose’s raw 311 data, the following 1 service_type are counted as street lights & signals:

  • Streetlight Outage

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <san_jose_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'Streetlight Outage'
)

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 Jose’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through April 11, 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.sanjoseca.gov.