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Daily Brief · Thursday, August 27, 2026 · No. 83
A typical Wednesday for 311 — 7,890 requests filed across LA
Angelenos filed 7,890 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, down 3% against a typical Wednesday (median of the last 8 Wednesdays: 8,154). 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: Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (1,960), Information-Only (1,934), Item Pickups (1,584).
Busiest ZIP: Hancock Park / Koreatown (90004) with 191 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 134 requests.
The ground moved 60 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M2.2 11 km SSW of Lompoc, CA.
In the permit ledger (which the city publishes ~2 weeks in arrears), a recent standout: a $1,966,896,355 airport building permit in Westchester (90045). Total declared construction value in our 30-day window: $4,320,633,495.
By the numbers
311 yesterday: 7,890 · typical Wednesday: 8,154 · Westwood: 134 · quakes 24h: 60 (max M2.2) · permit value 30d: $4,320,633,495Correction, September 18, 2026: the permit figure this edition labels “30-day window” / “permit value 30d” is the declared value of every permit on our record when it was written (issued since May 7, 2026) — not a 30-day total. The label was accurate in early June and drifted as the record grew. Editions from September 19 print a true 30-day figure with its dates. Archived text is left as published.