Somerville animals & pests 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the animals & pests category residents of Somerville have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through April 2026
Data from January 2021 through April 2026
Total Requests
12.1K
in the animals & pests category
Latest Month
3
April 2026
Share of total
2.2%
of all Somerville 311 requests
Monthly animals & pests requests
How many animals & pests 311 requests Somerville residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as animals & pests: Complaints about loose, injured, or dead animals on public property; dog bites; wildlife concerns (coyotes, raccoons); and rodent or pest sightings.
In Somerville’s raw 311 feed, the following 1 service_type roll into animals & pests:
- Animals & Pets
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <somerville_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Animals & Pets'
)Analyst tip: Austin prefixes everything 'Animal Protection - ...'. Calgary uses 'AS -' for animal services and also files rodent calls under 'Parks - Wildlife Management'. NYC does not currently have a dedicated animal service_type in our mapping — rodent and wildlife complaints land under building or street categories in that city.
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from Somerville’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through April 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.somervillema.gov.