Snapshot
Historical Seattle public code complaints and violations records opened 2003 through December 2025. Findings are not a live count of today's open complaints.
Methods and limitations
What each number does, and does not, establish.
Scope
The entire code record universe has 233,543 entries. The corrected landlord-tenant selection has 56,256 entries. Do not compare these as the same denominator.
Type
Complaints, Notices of Violation, citations, tenant-relocation matters and other record types are counted separately.
Missing inspection date
Missing means the public LastInspDate field is blank. It does not prove an inspector did not visit.
Keyword analysis
Categories come from accepted words in the complaint description and can overlap. They describe allegations and topics, not inspected conditions or proven code violations.
Changes and corrections
The November 8 reconciliation removed two duplicate source rows in the LLT selection. The master preserves the change log and source evidence. Geographic point files require separate reconciliation before being reused as corrected raw data.
What a notice rate can show
9,960 Notice of Violation records and 40,540 complaints produce a ratio of approximately 24.6 notice records per 100 complaint records over the selected period. It is a comparison of separate record totals, not a linked case conversion rate.
Do not infer a violation from a keyword, a completed repair from a status, or no inspection from a blank field. For an individual property, consult the official case record and supporting documents.