Butternut St: one Northside street, 287 complaints in a year

Butternut St carries 287 code complaints in the last 12 months — the most of any street in Syracuse's Northside, and #2 of every street in the city file. 114 of them (40%) are still open. Counting back to January 7, 2013, the file holds 2,902 records for this one street.

Not a spike, a plateau

The street's record volume is not a recent surge. Year by year: 2013 (4), 2014 (5), 2015 (1), 2017 (139), 2018 (188), 2019 (201), 2020 (181), 2021 (415), 2022 (294), 2023 (344), 2024 (411), 2025 (430), 2026 (289). The lowest year in the last decade is 2017, and every year since has been higher.

What gets written up

Interior property maintenance dominates: 1,027 of 2,902 records are classified Property Maintenance-Int, followed by Certificate of Compliance (449), Property Maintenance-Ext (407), Vacant House (241). "Vacant House" appears 241 times on this street alone.

The addresses that carry it

A street total is really a handful of buildings. The top 12 addresses account for 777 of the 2,902 records.

Recent records on Butternut St

The newest 150 records the file lists for this street.

How this was counted — and how it could be wrong

Streets are derived from the address text the city records on each complaint, taking the street named first when a record covers an intersection. That means:

• A record written as "Butternut Street" instead of "Butternut St" is counted separately.
• Intersection records ("X St & Y St") count toward X, not Y.
• Nothing here is geocoded, so a building whose mailing address sits on a parallel street but faces this one is counted where the file puts it.

We publish the method because the ranking changes if you change the rule. Read method and caveats before quoting the number.

Other Northside streets

City-wide, the busiest streets in the last 12 months are Lodi St (366), Butternut St (357), Park St (347), Salina St S (299), Highland St (275). See the full file or the single address with the most complaints.

Source: City of Syracuse Code Violations dataset · refreshed October 9, 2026 · street counted by address-string match, not geocoded.