Somerville parking 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the parking category residents of Somerville have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through April 2026
Data from January 2021 through April 2026
Total Requests
75.3K
in the parking category
Latest Month
45
April 2026
Share of total
13.5%
of all Somerville 311 requests
Monthly parking requests
How many parking 311 requests Somerville residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
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 Somerville’s raw 311 feed, the following 1 service_type roll into parking:
- Parking
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <somerville_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Parking'
)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.
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.