City Watch

What three Massachusetts cities reported to 311 on their latest full day of data that was unusual for that day of the week, measured against each category’s own recent history.

0Nothing ran unusually high on Friday, November 13. That is the common case, and it is a real result rather than a missing one.

No request category in Boston, Cambridge or Somerville ran meaningfully above its usual level for a Friday. Quiet days are the normal case here, and this one is a measured result rather than a gap in the data.

Also moving

Below the bar, but worth a look

These did not clear both thresholds. Most are high-volume categories where a statistically real rise is still a small relative change.

By city

The last 28 days

Each city has its own report, covering ninety days of volume, what moved on the latest day and the caveats specific to that feed.

Data freshness

Where each feed stands

Shown because these pipelines are new. If one stalls, a quiet day and a broken feed look identical unless the lag is on the page.

Boston
latest record 2026-11-13 23:59
last loaded 2026-11-14 13:36
326,342 rows · loaded 2h ago
Cambridge
latest record 2026-11-13 02:45
last loaded 2026-11-13 16:21
157,497 rows · loaded 23h ago
Somerville
latest record 2026-11-14 01:41
last loaded 2026-11-14 13:40
1,239,696 rows · loaded 2h ago

Sources: Boston via the Open311 GeoReport v2 API, Cambridge via the Commonwealth Connect dataset on the city’s Socrata portal, Somerville via its 311 dataset on data.somervillema.gov. Collected into BigQuery by Ingest and rebuilt daily.

Somerville’s feed is a contact-centre log rather than a service-request log, so informational calls are excluded here to keep the three cities counting comparable things. Boston publishes no closure timestamp, and Cambridge’s terminal status is Archived rather than Closed. None of the three is a like-for-like match for the others, and the per-category baselines used here never compare one city to another.

Page generated 2026-11-14 15:21 UTC.