Philadelphia’s Illegal Dumping Hot Spots

Philadelphia had 29,454 Illegal Dumping service requests (311 – OpenDataPhilly data) in the Jan., 2015 to Nov., 2016 period. Here is the breakdown by City Council District:

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Council Districts 1 and 2 have the highest number of Illegal Dumping service requests, followed by Districts 5 and 8. District 10 has the lowest count, less than 10% of Districts 1 and 2.

There are nearly 41,000 street segments in Philadelphia, 71% had no illegal dumping reports, while 46 (0.1%), had 20 or more illegal dumping reports.illegal_dump_sr_by_seg_tbl

These 46 high illegal dumping street segments are mapped by Council District below

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These high illegal dumping street segments are clustered in several Council illegal_dump_sr_gte_20_by_seg__by_cd_tblDistrict; Districts 2 and 3 had 14 and 11 hot spot segments,  Districts 7 and 8 had 6 each.

These 46 hot spot segments represent 0.1% of all City street segments and had 5% of all illegal dumping service requests.

Users can download a pdf file of the 46 hot spot segments here.

 

 

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