Data DeskNov 8
Chattanooga 311 closes pothole requests faster than last year, but one in six now closes as unresolved
Chattanooga 311 received 825 pothole requests from May through October 2026, down from 1,206 in the same months of 2025.
What the city’s own records say, checked before it runs.
Chattanooga 311 received 825 pothole requests from May through October 2026, down from 1,206 in the same months of 2025.
Chattanooga had 1,139 reported traffic crashes in October 2026, the most of any month in the city's crash data, which begins in July 2024.
Chattanooga 311 received 263 requests about traffic signals in July-September 2026.
Chattanooga 311 received 956 requests to repair a city garbage container in July and August 2026.
Chattanooga police recorded 1,074 field interviews between 10 p.m.
Chattanooga police recorded 1,580 simple assault cases from April through September 2026, up from 1,381 in the same months of 2025 (+14.4%) and 1,331 in 2024 (+18.7%).
Chattanooga police recorded 27 forgery or counterfeiting cases from April through September 2026, the fewest for that window in the twelve years the dataset covers (2015 to 2026).
Chattanooga police recorded 89 cases of credit card or ATM fraud from April through September 2026, the fewest for that window in the twelve years the dataset covers (2015 to 2026).
Chattanooga police recorded 231 incidents classified as 'Shots Fired with Nothing Located' from April through September 2026.
Chattanooga police recorded 86 cases of theft of motor vehicle parts or accessories from April through September 2026.
Chattanooga police recorded 797 shoplifting cases from April through September 2026, the fewest for that window in the twelve years the dataset covers (2015 to 2026).
From January through September 2026 the city received 101 applications for residential demolition permits, down from 186 in the same months of 2024 and 163 in 2025.
Chattanooga police recorded 367 burglary cases from April through September 2026.
Chattanooga police recorded 69 robbery cases from April through September 2026.
Code enforcement cases citing Chattanooga's litter ordinance (21-133, litter on occupied or vacant property) fell to 834 in April-August 2026, down from 1,737 in the same months of 2025 (-52%).
Chattanooga code enforcement opened 1,780 new cases in August and September 2026 (counted by each case's first logged activity).
Chattanooga police recorded 630 theft-from-motor-vehicle cases (car break-ins) from April through September 2026, down 53.5% from 1,354 in the same months of 2020 and the lowest count for that window
Chattanooga police recorded 802 vandalism cases (Destructive/Damage/Vandalism Of Property) from April through September 2026, down 21.7% from 1,024 in the same months of 2025 and 42% below 1,389 in 2023.
Chattanooga police recorded 983 trespass-of-real-property cases from April through September 2026, up 44.3% from 681 in the same months of 2025 and 691 in 2024.
Chattanooga's All Permits file lists 1,862 residential electrical permits applied for in 2025, in line with the 1,760-2,160 a year since 2018.
Chattanooga police recorded 245 motor vehicle theft cases from April through August 2026.
In the city's Open Budget - Expenses file (57,015 General Fund line items, FY2015 to FY2027), the Fire Department's approved budget rose from $65.2M in FY2025 to $84.6M in FY2027, an increase of 29.7%.
Across 23,886 crash reports in the Chattanooga Traffic Crashes dataset, covering 1 July 2024 through 25 September 2026, 5,127 crashes — 21.5% — are flagged as hit-and-run.
In the Police Incidents dataset, aggravated assault cases closed with an arrest dropped from 49.7% of founded cases in 2015-2019 (2,817 of 5,668) to 33.4% in 2022-2026 (1,969 of 5,901).
Calls coded Mental Health Call in the Police Incidents dataset rose from 803 in 2019 to 2,243 in 2025, a 2.8-fold increase.
Mechanical Rough and Mechanical Final inspections failed 9.8% of the time in 2021 (299 failures in 3,059 graded inspections) and 22.0% of the time so far in 2026 (621 in 2,829), a more than twofold rise.
Across 68,572 service requests filed between 2025-04-15 and 2025-10-28, the share closed after the due date the city itself set rose steadily through the summer: 41.8% for requests opened in May, 52.1
Chattanooga holds pothole requests to a 5-working-day target, and the pothole_data_feed dataset records for each request whether it was finished by its due date.