Toronto animals & pests 311 requests

How many 311 requests in the animals & pests category residents of Toronto have filed since January 2024.

Current release

Data through March 31, 2026

Data from January 2024 through March 31, 2026

Open data

Total Requests

52.3K

in the animals & pests category

Latest Month

1.5K

March 2026

Share of total

4.8%

of all Toronto 311 requests

Monthly animals & pests requests

How many animals & pests 311 requests Toronto residents file each month.

How this category is extracted

What counts as animals & pests: Complaints about loose, injured, or dead animals on public property; dog bites; wildlife concerns (coyotes, raccoons); and rodent or pest sightings.

In Toronto’s raw 311 feed, the following 2 service_type values roll into animals & pests:

  • Injured - Wildlife
  • Pick up Dead Wildlife

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <toronto_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'Injured - Wildlife',
  'Pick up Dead Wildlife'
)

Analyst tip: Austin prefixes everything 'Animal Protection - ...'. Calgary uses 'AS -' for animal services and also files rodent calls under 'Parks - Wildlife Management'. NYC does not currently have a dedicated animal service_type in our mapping — rodent and wildlife complaints land under building or street categories in that city.

See how animals & pests is defined for every tracked city →

Source & provenance

Counts on this page are derived from Toronto’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2024 through March 31, 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 open.toronto.ca.

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