Washington graffiti 311 requests

How many 311 requests in the graffiti category residents of Washington have filed since January 2021.

Current release

Data through April 13, 2026

Data from January 2021 through April 13, 2026

Open data

Total Requests

28.5K

in the graffiti category

Latest Month

175

April 2026

Share of total

1.3%

of all Washington 311 requests

Median Resolution

6.6d

half of requests close faster

Monthly graffiti requests

How many graffiti 311 requests Washington residents file each month.

How this category is extracted

What counts as graffiti: Requests to remove graffiti from public or private property.

In Washington’s raw 311 feed, the following 1 service_type roll into graffiti:

  • Graffiti Removal

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <washington_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'Graffiti Removal'
)

Analyst tip: Most cities use a literal 'Graffiti' or 'Graffiti Removal' string. Austin splits public vs. private property ('APH - Graffiti Abatement - Public Property' vs. 'DSD - Graffiti Abatement - Private Property'). San Francisco does the same split. Calgary uses 'Corporate - Graffiti Concerns'.

See how graffiti 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 a hand-curated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at maps2.dcgis.dc.gov.

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