Seattle Tenant Landlord Compliance & Accountability

Housing Code Enforcement — Public-Record Transparency Dashboard

Every complaint and enforcement record the City of Seattle logged for rental housing, 2003–2025 — shown by volume, type, district, and time. Built entirely from the City's own public records.

56,258 records 2003–2025 7 council districts Source: SDCI Code Complaints & Violations export
District

Complaints & violations over time

Records opened per year. The red marker flags 2018.

Records by council district

Total records logged, 2003–2025. Selected district highlighted.

Record composition

Share by record type.

Just-Cause Eviction (JCEO) records by who reported them

Citywide. "Landlord-reported" = the City's own inspector note (DESCRIPTION1) records a JCEO notice with no tenant complaint behind it.

How to read this. These are counts of records in the City's public export — a measure of volume and composition, not of outcomes or fault. Whether any individual complaint was substantiated, resolved, or closed without action is a record-level question answered in the property case studies, not here. JCEO and POTA flags are derived from the City's own description fields. Figures are reproducible from the named source file; nothing on this page asserts wrongdoing by any individual.