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Houston Pothole & Street Repairs

Pothole reports and street maintenance work orders across Houston.

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300
Records
🚩
18
Red flags
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80
Quality score
πŸ”„
weekly
Update frequency

Data Detective

Tip

Scan the map for red dots and check the chart for spikes. Big jumps or drops are usually where the interesting questions live.

Source: The numbers above come straight from Houston Open Data.

πŸ“ Data quality breakdown

How healthy is this dataset across five dimensions?

Completeness 94/100
Freshness 15/100
Location 99/100
Consistency 95/100
Usefulness 100/100

πŸ—ΊοΈ Where the data lives

Up to 300 geolocated records. Red markers are flagged values.

πŸ“ˆ Activity over time

Record volume by month, or by status when no dates exist.

🚩 Open red flags

Suspicious values our scanner caught β€” see if you agree.

🚩 High · future date
95% sure

This record is dated in the future.

occurred_at 2026-07-02
A 311 request can't be created next year. A future date usually means someone typed the date wrong or a computer formatted it incorrectly.

Next step: Check for a typo or a time-zone/format bug at the source.

Houston Pothole & Street Repairs Source β†—
🚩 High · future date
95% sure

This record is dated in the future.

occurred_at 2026-07-01
A 311 request can't be created next year. A future date usually means someone typed the date wrong or a computer formatted it incorrectly.

Next step: Check for a typo or a time-zone/format bug at the source.

Houston Pothole & Street Repairs Source β†—
🚩 High · future date
95% sure

This record is dated in the future.

occurred_at 2026-08-16
A 311 request can't be created next year. A future date usually means someone typed the date wrong or a computer formatted it incorrectly.

Next step: Check for a typo or a time-zone/format bug at the source.

Houston Pothole & Street Repairs Source β†—
🚩 High · impossible negative
85% sure

A count or amount is negative where that should be impossible.

numeric_value -8
You can't have negative days to fix a pothole, or negative permits. A negative number here is a sign of a data-entry or calculation mistake.

Next step: Confirm whether negatives represent refunds/corrections or are simply errors.

Houston Pothole & Street Repairs Source β†—
🚩 High · impossible negative
85% sure

A count or amount is negative where that should be impossible.

numeric_value -8
You can't have negative days to fix a pothole, or negative permits. A negative number here is a sign of a data-entry or calculation mistake.

Next step: Confirm whether negatives represent refunds/corrections or are simply errors.

Houston Pothole & Street Repairs Source β†—
🚩 High · impossible negative
85% sure

A count or amount is negative where that should be impossible.

numeric_value -59
You can't have negative days to fix a pothole, or negative permits. A negative number here is a sign of a data-entry or calculation mistake.

Next step: Confirm whether negatives represent refunds/corrections or are simply errors.

Houston Pothole & Street Repairs Source β†—
🚩 High · stale dataset
80% sure

Expected updates every weekly, but it has been 72 days, 12 hours.

last_source_update 2026-04-06
A dataset that's supposed to refresh weekly but hasn't in 72 days, 12 hours is like a bus schedule nobody updated β€” you can't trust it to reflect what's happening now.

Next step: Ask the department whether updates stopped or moved elsewhere.

Houston Pothole & Street Repairs Source β†—
🚩 Medium · missing value
90% sure

The field "reported_by" is empty in 33% of records.

reported_by 33% empty
Think of a class roster where most students never filled in their phone number. If "reported_by" is blank 33% of the time, we can't trust any total or map that depends on it.

Next step: Ask the owning department why this field is so often blank.

Houston Pothole & Street Repairs Source β†—

⚠️ Known issues

  • β€’Duplicate reports for the same pothole
  • β€’Completion dates sometimes missing

πŸ’‘ Public use cases

  • β€’Find pothole hotspots
  • β€’Track repair turnaround
  • β€’Compare street conditions by area

πŸ“ Geo fields

latitude longitude zip

πŸ•’ Time fields

reported_date completed_date

Records: 300

Update frequency: weekly

Last imported: 23 hours ago

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