Somerville service inquiries 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the service inquiries category residents of Somerville have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through April 12, 2026
Data from January 2021 through April 12, 2026
Total Requests
318.4K
in the service inquiries category
Latest Month
2.2K
April 2026
Share of total
56.8%
of all Somerville 311 requests
Monthly service inquiries requests
How many service inquiries 311 requests Somerville residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as service inquiries: Calls and submissions logged as informational inquiries, status checks, or general questions about city services rather than reports of problems requiring a field response. High counts here typically indicate a city's 311 system captures all resident contacts, not just actionable service requests.
In Somerville’s raw 311 feed, the following 3 service_type values roll into service inquiries:
- Information - DPW
- Information - Parking
- Information - Various Other
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <somerville_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Information - DPW',
'Information - Parking',
'Information - Various Other'
)Analyst tip: Chicago's '311 INFORMATION ONLY CALL' is the single largest contributor — roughly 1 million rows. Edmonton files informational contacts under 'General Information', 'General Inquiry', 'Routes and Schedules', 'Tax Account - Inquiries/Requests', and related types. Baltimore uses 'ECC-Information Request'. Somerville logs them as 'Information - Various Other', 'Information - Parking', and 'Information - DPW'. Philadelphia uses 'Information Request' with descriptive subtypes. Calgary uses department-prefixed inquiry types (AT - Property Tax, CT - Bus Route, etc.). Not all cities publish this category — cities that only log actionable service requests will show zero rows here.
See how service inquiries 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 April 12, 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.