Seattle parking 311 requests

Parking 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

79.2K

in the parking category

Latest Month

532

April 2026

Share of total

11.1%

of all Seattle 311 requests

Monthly parking requests

How many parking 311 requests Seattle residents file each month.

How this category is defined

What counts as parking: Enforcement complaints about illegally parked vehicles, blocked driveways, parking meter issues, and parking-sign maintenance. Distinct from `abandoned_vehicles`, which is about long-term neglect rather than enforcement.

In Seattle’s raw 311 data, the following 4 service_type values are counted as parking:

  • Parking Enforcement
  • Public Garage or Parking Lot Complaint
  • Scooter or Bike Share Issue
  • Towing Impound Complaint

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <seattle_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'Parking Enforcement',
  'Public Garage or Parking Lot Complaint',
  'Scooter or Bike Share Issue',
  'Towing Impound Complaint'
)

Analyst tip: Austin prefixes with 'TPW - Parking' (Transportation and Public Works). NYC uses 'Blocked Driveway' and 'Illegal Parking'. LA has a broad 'Parking Issues' plus 'Dockless Mobility Enforcement' for scooter parking. Oakland simply uses 'PARKING'. Note: abandoned vehicles are a SEPARATE category in this dataset.

See how parking 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.