Somerville other 311 requests

Other 311 requests filed in Somerville since January 2021.

Current release

Data through May 1, 2026

Data from January 2021 through May 1, 2026

Source data: Socrata ↗

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Total Requests

25.6K

in the other category

Latest Month

338

April 2026

Share of total

4.5%

of all Somerville 311 requests

Monthly other requests

How many other 311 requests Somerville residents file each month.

How this category is defined

What counts as other: A catch-all for 311 requests that don't cleanly fit any of the above categories or use city-specific service types we haven't yet mapped. If a city's 'other' count is unusually high, it usually means that city has a fine-grained service-type taxonomy we haven't fully normalized yet.

In Somerville’s raw 311 data, the following 1 service_type are counted as other:

  • Unknown/Miscellaneous

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <somerville_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'Unknown/Miscellaneous'
)

Analyst tip: No positive pattern — this is where requests land when no mapping exists for the city's service_type. Look at a city's own raw feed to see the full service_type distribution and identify which unmapped types dominate the 'other' bucket.

See how other is defined for every tracked city →

Source & provenance

Counts on this page are derived from Somerville’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through May 1, 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.somervillema.gov.