Seattle homeless encampments 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the homeless encampments category residents of Seattle have filed since January 2024.
Current release
Data through April 12, 2026
Data from January 2024 through April 12, 2026
Total Requests
142.4K
in the homeless encampments category
Latest Month
2.3K
April 2026
Share of total
20.0%
of all Seattle 311 requests
Monthly homeless encampments requests
How many homeless encampments 311 requests Seattle residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as homeless encampments: Reports of tents, improvised shelters, or other encampments on public property.
In Seattle’s raw 311 feed, the following 1 service_type roll into homeless encampments:
- Unauthorized Encampment
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <seattle_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Unauthorized Encampment'
)Analyst tip: Look for 'Encampment' (NYC, San Francisco), 'Homeless Encampment' (LA), 'HOMELESS EMT' (Oakland), and 'Corporate - Encampment Concerns' (Calgary). Only a handful of the cities we track publish a dedicated encampment service type — others fold encampment complaints into 'other' or general building/street categories.
See how homeless encampments 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 a hand-curated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.seattle.gov.