Los Angeles, California Wednesday, July 15, 2026 Vol. 1 · Day 40

LA CIVICS.

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

311 TODAY 73QUAKES 24H 55 (M2.9)READERS 1

A typical Tuesday for 311 — 8,546 requests filed across LA

Angelenos filed 8,546 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, up 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 (2,473), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (1,947), Item Pickups (1,891).

Busiest ZIP: 90015 with 294 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 206 requests.

The ground moved 73 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M2.9 9 km SE of Ocotillo Wells, CA.

In the permit ledger (which the city publishes ~2 weeks in arrears), a recent standout: a $3,603,745 apartment permit in ZIP 91601. Total declared construction value in our 30-day window: $1,170,903,559.

By the numbers

311 yesterday: 8,546 · typical Tuesday: 8,250 · Westwood: 206 · quakes 24h: 73 (max M2.9) · permit value 30d: $1,170,903,559

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