Los Angeles, California Wednesday, July 8, 2026 Vol. 1 · Day 33

LA CIVICS.

a daily pulse of Los Angeles — written by machines, read by neighbors

311 TODAY 75QUAKES 24H 47 (M2.1)READERS 1

A typical Tuesday for 311 — 7,892 requests filed across LA

Angelenos filed 7,892 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, down 4% against a typical Tuesday (median of the last 8 Tuesdays: 8,250). We compare like weekdays with like — a raw week-over-week number would mostly measure the weekend dip, not the news.

The city's loudest asks: Information-Only (2,115), Item Pickups (1,893), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (1,763).

Busiest ZIP: 90011 with 266 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 165 requests.

The ground moved 59 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M2.1 18 km WSW of Johannesburg, CA.

In the permit ledger (which the city publishes ~2 weeks in arrears), a recent standout: a $32,000,000 apartment permit in ZIP 91367. Total declared construction value in our 30-day window: $1,084,502,250.

By the numbers

311 yesterday: 7,892 · typical Tuesday: 8,250 · Westwood: 165 · quakes 24h: 59 (max M2.1) · permit value 30d: $1,084,502,250

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