Washington abandoned vehicles 311 requests
Abandoned Vehicles 311 requests filed in Washington since January 2021.
Current release
Data through April 13, 2026
Data from January 2021 through April 13, 2026
Source data: Open data ↗
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Total Requests
47.2K
in the abandoned vehicles category
Latest Month
189
April 2026
Share of total
2.2%
of all Washington 311 requests
Median Resolution
5.2d
half of requests close faster
Monthly abandoned vehicles requests
How many abandoned vehicles 311 requests Washington residents file each month.
How this category is defined
What counts as abandoned vehicles: Reports of vehicles left unattended for extended periods on public streets or in other public spaces, including derelict cars and vehicle abatement complaints. This page shows aggregate complaint counts and trends across cities. To report an abandoned vehicle, use your city's official 311 service directly—response times and whether the vehicle is ultimately towed vary significantly by city, as the data here illustrates.
In Washington’s raw 311 data, the following 1 service_type are counted as abandoned vehicles:
- Abandoned Vehicle - On Public Property
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <washington_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Abandoned Vehicle - On Public Property'
)Analyst tip: Look for service_type values containing 'Abandoned' or 'Derelict' (NYC, New Orleans), 'ABANDONED AUTO' (Oakland), and Austin's 'APD - Vehicle Abatement' prefix. Chicago uses the exact string 'Abandoned Vehicle Complaint'.
See how abandoned vehicles is defined for every tracked city →
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from Washington’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through April 13, 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 maps2.dcgis.dc.gov.