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Tuesday, October 20, 2026 · No. 137
Angelenos filed 8,565 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, up 1% against a typical Monday (median of the last 8 Mondays: 8,505). We compare like weekdays with like — a raw week-over-week number would mostly measure the weekend dip, not the news.
Tallies of the MyLA311 service requests filed on Monday, Oct 19 — the latest complete day in our mirror, which refreshes each morning from the city's open data — by type and ZIP code. Each links into its own live page; the dashboard has the full picture, and the findings hold what this data has taught us so far.