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Austin: All categories · 12:00–18:00 — Graffiti requests

All categories · 12:00–18:00

City source retrieved November 6, 2026 · scan evaluated November 9, 2026 · frequency change

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12-month frequency comparison

October 2024–September 2025
673
October 2025–September 2026
334
Change in monthly mean
-28.25

The two windows each contain 12 complete covered months. The magnitude of the change is 2.01-fold. These are published requests, not a population-adjusted rate. Fixed windows do not establish a breakpoint, remove all seasonal effects or prove a renewal explanation.

Saved observations and fitted phases

Phase suggestions withheld: serial pattern remains in the candidate fits. Manual boundaries can explore, not confirm, a change.

Fixed six-log-cycle frame · 120 calendar months · factors per six months. Raw zeros stay zero; confirmed zeros become one only for log-space fitting and diagnostics. Missing coverage remains unavailable.

Monthly graffiti removal requests on a standard celeration chartCity of Chicago published records. Fixed six-decade count scale, 120 calendar months, celeration per 6 months. Zero markers are unconnected below the plot. Exact counts and coverage are available in the data table. Analyze: suggested. Phase suggestions withheld: serial pattern remains in the candidate fits. Manual boundaries can explore, not confirm, a change. See the phase results table for dates, factors and uncertainty.1510501005001,0005,00010,00050,000100,000500,0001,000,000Requests per monthSingle-trend reference: 2019-01–2026-09Feb 2019: 2Mar 2019: 5Apr 2019: 8May 2019: 12Jun 2019: 15Jul 2019: 25Aug 2019: 19Sep 2019: 22Oct 2019: 36Nov 2019: 14Dec 2019: 20Jan 2020: 40Feb 2020: 16Mar 2020: 21Apr 2020: 36May 2020: 64Jun 2020: 67Jul 2020: 36Aug 2020: 15Sep 2020: 32Oct 2020: 7Nov 2020: 61Dec 2020: 48Jan 2021: 31Feb 2021: 19Mar 2021: 46Apr 2021: 15May 2021: 11Jun 2021: 24Jul 2021: 46Aug 2021: 24Sep 2021: 15Oct 2021: 15Nov 2021: 12Dec 2021: 13Jan 2022: 42Feb 2022: 26Mar 2022: 67Apr 2022: 51May 2022: 49Jun 2022: 35Jul 2022: 41Aug 2022: 31Sep 2022: 40Oct 2022: 19Nov 2022: 43Dec 2022: 24Jan 2023: 34Feb 2023: 21Mar 2023: 19Apr 2023: 30May 2023: 23Jun 2023: 31Jul 2023: 30Aug 2023: 142Sep 2023: 31Oct 2023: 24Nov 2023: 21Dec 2023: 25Jan 2024: 69Feb 2024: 82Mar 2024: 90Apr 2024: 69May 2024: 44Jun 2024: 37Jul 2024: 44Aug 2024: 42Sep 2024: 39Oct 2024: 39Nov 2024: 47Dec 2024: 59Jan 2025: 65Feb 2025: 29Mar 2025: 29Apr 2025: 55May 2025: 85Jun 2025: 37Jul 2025: 94Aug 2025: 75Sep 2025: 59Oct 2025: 36Nov 2025: 21Dec 2025: 31Jan 2026: 34Feb 2026: 29Mar 2026: 20Apr 2026: 10May 2026: 45Jun 2026: 34Jul 2026: 20Aug 2026: 13Sep 2026: 41ZeroUnknownJan 2019: zero requests; not connected?Oct 2016: missing?Nov 2016: missing?Dec 2016: missing?Jan 2017: missing?Feb 2017: missing?Mar 2017: missing?Apr 2017: missing?May 2017: missing?Jun 2017: missing?Jul 2017: missing?Aug 2017: missing?Sep 2017: missing?Oct 2017: missing?Nov 2017: missing?Dec 2017: missing?Jan 2018: missing?Feb 2018: missing?Mar 2018: missing?Apr 2018: missing?May 2018: missing?Jun 2018: missing?Jul 2018: missing?Aug 2018: missing?Sep 2018: missing?Oct 2018: missing?Nov 2018: missing?Dec 2018: missingOct 2016Oct 2017Oct 2018Oct 2019Oct 2020Oct 2021Oct 2022Oct 2023Oct 2024Oct 2025Oct 2026Calendar months

Single-trend reference · exploratory · per six months

  1. 1 · Jan 2019–Sep 2026×1.07Direction uncertain (serial pattern) · 1 zero fitted as 1

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Interpretation and limitations (13)
  • Exploratory description, not a forecast, causal explanation or proof of a change.
  • Approximate 95% factor intervals assume independent, constant-variance log residuals and fixed boundaries. They do not account for boundary search, serial dependence or source revisions.
  • Confirmed zeros are treated as 1 only for fitting and its diagnostics. Raw counts stay zero; low-count results depend on this convention.
  • Independent phase lines may jump at boundaries. Every observation belongs to exactly one phase.
  • Reporting, classifications and seasonality can change. Counts are not population-adjusted; a level shift without a slope change is not the target of this search.
  • Uses dated last-good cached data, not newly verified source counts.
  • 1 confirmed zero fitted as 1; raw counts remain zero. Low-count trends are sensitive to this adjustment.
  • The best candidate failed the residual-independence diagnostic. A single-trend reference is shown instead; this does not establish a stable trend.
  • Serial pattern in residuals: independence is doubtful; the reported intervals may be too narrow. Seasonality is not modeled.
  • 311 status is its value at retrieval, not at request creation. Newer cohorts have had less time to close; Open/Canceled comparisons can reflect workflow or cohort age rather than changing request volume.
  • Current-system 311 coverage starts in 2019. Early phases may reflect adoption/reporting ramp-up; request counts are not completed work or incident prevalence.
  • Many dependent filter conditions were searched. No multiple-testing-adjusted significance or causal attribution is claimed.
  • Frequency compares fixed equal-length windows of raw counts, not population risk or a celeration-factor ratio. Reporting, classifications and exposure may have changed.
Phase diagnostics

Intervals assume fixed boundaries and independent log residuals. They are not adjusted for the phase or filter search. Near-optimal boundary ranges are not confidence intervals.

Saved phase results
PhaseStart–endMonthsFactor / six monthsConditional 95% intervalZeros fitted as 1Lag-one residual
1January 2019–September 202693×1.071.040–1.11010.469
Exact monthly observations (120 slots)

Newest first. Unknown coverage is not a zero. These are the original saved observations, not fitted or rounded predictions.

Raw monthly requests
MonthRaw countCoverage
September 202641complete
August 202613complete
July 202620complete
June 202634complete
May 202645complete
April 202610complete
March 202620complete
February 202629complete
January 202634complete
December 202531complete
November 202521complete
October 202536complete
September 202559complete
August 202575complete
July 202594complete
June 202537complete
May 202585complete
April 202555complete
March 202529complete
February 202529complete
January 202565complete
December 202459complete
November 202447complete
October 202439complete
September 202439complete
August 202442complete
July 202444complete
June 202437complete
May 202444complete
April 202469complete
March 202490complete
February 202482complete
January 202469complete
December 202325complete
November 202321complete
October 202324complete
September 202331complete
August 2023142complete
July 202330complete
June 202331complete
May 202323complete
April 202330complete
March 202319complete
February 202321complete
January 202334complete
December 202224complete
November 202243complete
October 202219complete
September 202240complete
August 202231complete
July 202241complete
June 202235complete
May 202249complete
April 202251complete
March 202267complete
February 202226complete
January 202242complete
December 202113complete
November 202112complete
October 202115complete
September 202115complete
August 202124complete
July 202146complete
June 202124complete
May 202111complete
April 202115complete
March 202146complete
February 202119complete
January 202131complete
December 202048complete
November 202061complete
October 20207complete
September 202032complete
August 202015complete
July 202036complete
June 202067complete
May 202064complete
April 202036complete
March 202021complete
February 202016complete
January 202040complete
December 201920complete
November 201914complete
October 201936complete
September 201922complete
August 201919complete
July 201925complete
June 201915complete
May 201912complete
April 20198complete
March 20195complete
February 20192complete
January 20190complete
December 2018Unavailablemissing
November 2018Unavailablemissing
October 2018Unavailablemissing
September 2018Unavailablemissing
August 2018Unavailablemissing
July 2018Unavailablemissing
June 2018Unavailablemissing
May 2018Unavailablemissing
April 2018Unavailablemissing
March 2018Unavailablemissing
February 2018Unavailablemissing
January 2018Unavailablemissing
December 2017Unavailablemissing
November 2017Unavailablemissing
October 2017Unavailablemissing
September 2017Unavailablemissing
August 2017Unavailablemissing
July 2017Unavailablemissing
June 2017Unavailablemissing
May 2017Unavailablemissing
April 2017Unavailablemissing
March 2017Unavailablemissing
February 2017Unavailablemissing
January 2017Unavailablemissing
December 2016Unavailablemissing
November 2016Unavailablemissing
October 2016Unavailablemissing
Source and reproducibility
Publisher dataset
311 Service Requests · City of Chicago
Source retrieved
2026-11-06T12:10:53.153Z
Publisher update
2026-11-06T11:22:56.000Z
Covered months
January 2019–September 2026
Source note
Source v6vf-nfxy. Joint day/category/hour/applicable-flag/ward/status counts; no addresses, coordinates or incident identifiers. Each year's cells reconcile with an independent source total. Reads are not an atomic publisher snapshot. Current 311 system only, legacy_record=false; includes duplicate requests, not completed work. Status is as currently published, grouped by creation date—not historical status or completion date. Prepared daily community-area snapshot; scheduled rebuild at 06:00 America/Chicago. Full supported history is rechecked for corrections. Retrieval timestamps are preserved; this is not a real-time feed. Local indexed neighborhood snapshot. Totals are for the loaded area before other filters, not citywide totals. Citywide and unassigned-area views use a separate network-backed scope.
Snapshot
daily-v1:f761b44d-f9db-4d57-b536-48aea9b60f93:neighborhood-v2:7c38b5f02a76e0cf42a6efce350a97c8
Discovery method
multi-feed-turn-and-frequency-renewal-v2
Analyze method
exploratory-segmented-log10-ols-zero-as-one-v3
Search plan
a3ffccedeb8d8ce18a30df3636839f775af1e5188e55a1f685695133135c6e35
Evidence run
515253d59d75127906477d3d9324aa5015e51d0be9815df28bfeac1017106c08

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