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Daily Brief · Wednesday, September 9, 2026 · No. 96
311 requests up 19% vs a typical Tuesday — 9,817 filed across LA
Angelenos filed 9,817 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, up 19% against a typical Tuesday (median of the last 8 Tuesdays: 8,272). We compare like weekdays with like — a raw week-over-week number would mostly measure the weekend dip, not the news. Yesterday was the first workday after Labor Day, a City of Los Angeles holiday; requests held over the holiday can land on the first day back, so some of the rise may be the calendar rather than the news.
The city's loudest asks: Information-Only (2,633), Item Pickups (2,064), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (1,795).
Busiest ZIP: Westlake / MacArthur Park (90057) with 758 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 179 requests.
The ground moved 65 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M2.8 16 km WSW of Johannesburg, CA.
In the permit ledger (which the city publishes ~2 weeks in arrears), a recent standout: a $62,684,296 apartment permit in Westchester (90045). Total declared construction value in our 30-day window: $4,739,747,073.
By the numbers
311 yesterday: 9,817 · typical Tuesday: 8,272 · Westwood: 179 · quakes 24h: 65 (max M2.8) · permit value 30d: $4,739,747,073Correction, 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.