Seattle abandoned vehicles 311 requests
Abandoned Vehicles 311 requests filed in Seattle since January 2024.
Current release
Data through April 12, 2026
Data from January 2024 through April 12, 2026
Source data: Socrata ↗
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Total Requests
131.2K
in the abandoned vehicles category
Latest Month
1.8K
April 2026
Share of total
18.4%
of all Seattle 311 requests
Monthly abandoned vehicles requests
How many abandoned vehicles 311 requests Seattle residents file each month.
How this category is defined
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. This page shows aggregate complaint counts and trends across cities. To report an abandoned vehicle, use your city's official 311 service directly—response times and whether the vehicle is ultimately towed vary significantly by city, as the data here illustrates.
In Seattle’s raw 311 data, the following 1 service_type are counted as abandoned vehicles:
- Abandoned Vehicle/72hr Parking Ordinance
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <seattle_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Abandoned Vehicle/72hr Parking Ordinance'
)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 Seattle’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2024 through April 12, 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.seattle.gov.