Toronto illegal dumping 311 requests
Illegal Dumping 311 requests filed in Toronto since January 2024.
Current release
Data through March 31, 2026
Data from January 2024 through March 31, 2026
Source data: Open data ↗
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Total Requests
14.5K
in the illegal dumping category
Latest Month
1.3K
March 2026
Share of total
1.3%
of all Toronto 311 requests
Monthly illegal dumping requests
How many illegal dumping 311 requests Toronto residents file each month.
How this category is defined
What counts as illegal dumping: Reports of bulk items, construction debris, or other materials dumped illegally on public property or in unauthorized locations.
In Toronto’s raw 311 data, the following 2 service_type values are counted as illegal dumping:
- Clean up Illegal Dumping on City Road Allowance
- Waste or Illegal Dumping on Private Property
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <toronto_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Clean up Illegal Dumping on City Road Allowance',
'Waste or Illegal Dumping on Private Property'
)Analyst tip: LA uses 'Illegal Dumping Item Pickup', Chicago uses 'Fly Dumping Complaint', Oakland uses 'ILLDUMP', Calgary uses 'Bylaw - Material on Public Property'. Cities without a dedicated dumping service_type typically log these under street_cleaning or building_maintenance.
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 an AI-generated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at open.toronto.ca.