Somerville sidewalks 311 requests

Sidewalks 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

13.2K

in the sidewalks category

Latest Month

567

April 2026

Share of total

2.3%

of all Somerville 311 requests

Monthly sidewalks requests

How many sidewalks 311 requests Somerville residents file each month.

How this category is defined

What counts as sidewalks: Sidewalk repair and obstruction complaints, curb damage, and sidewalk snow-and-ice clearance concerns.

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

  • Sidewalks & Streets

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <somerville_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'Sidewalks & Streets'
)

Analyst tip: Austin uses 'TPW - Sidewalk Repair' and 'TPW - Obstruction in Right of Way'. Calgary's sidewalk-snow-and-ice calls come in under 'Bylaw - Snow and Ice on Sidewalk' (separate from the equivalent roadway category). LA splits this across 'Curb Issues', 'Obstructions', and 'Report a Sidewalk Problem'.

See how sidewalks 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.