Stories
Data stories from Syracuse records
Story-shaped reporting built from the City of Syracuse's own files: 93 complaints at 131 Lafayette Rd Rear, 287 on Butternut St, and three years of monthly totals.
Tables tell you what is in the file. These three pages tell you what one part of it means — a single address with a five-year paper trail, one Northside street counted end to end, and the monthly trend across three years. Every number links back to the record it came from.
The stories
One address, five years
93 code complaints at 131 Lafayette Rd Rear
The city's file holds 93 records for a single rear address in South Valley — 31 of them still open. Here is every one.
56 complaints in the last 12 months
One street
Butternut St: 2,902 code records on a single Northside street
287 complaints on Butternut St in the last 12 months, 114 of them open — and 2,902 since 2013. Ranked by address.
287 complaints in the last 12 months
The trend
Syracuse code complaints: 2,539 in the busiest month, 196 last month
Three years of monthly totals, straight from the city's file. The busiest month was 2025-05 with 2,539 records; the newest month is 2026-10 with 196.
2025-05 busiest month (2,539 records)
This month, in one line
2026-10: 196 records opened, against 1,044 in 2026-09 (-81.2% change) and 196 versus the same month a year earlier (-82.4%). The current month is always partial.
Streets with the most complaints
Counted by the street named first on each complaint address. Intersection records count toward their first-named street, so this is a reading of the file, not a geocode.
Records as of October 9, 2026 · all stories re-generate from the same weekly pull · method and caveats.
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