Somerville parking 311 requests

Parking 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

76.3K

in the parking category

Latest Month

1.3K

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 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 Somerville’s raw 311 data, the following 1 service_type are counted as 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.

See how parking 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.