This page looks at Seattle complaint and violation records reported through SDCI’s public open-data / built-environment record system. It compares complaint volume, notice-of-violation records, missing inspection fields, and closed/completed complaints that still lack visible inspection documentation.
The dashboard opens to 2015-2025 because that is the clearest recent long-range window for public trend review. Use the filters to switch year ranges or view one council district at a time.
Wider reviewed record universe: 233,543 citywide complaint/enforcement records.
Interactive working file: MASTER_SOURCE_CITYWIDE_LLT_THRU_20251231_ENRICHED_01272026__PLUS_RECORDLIST-RARE.csv (source CSV not included in this website ZIP)
Prior KPI reference: CITYWIDE_KPI.html
Percentages are shown first because they tell the public how much of the record is documented, missing, or moving into formal violation records. Counts are shown underneath each percentage.
A violation total means very little by itself. The relevant question is how violation records compare with complaint records over the same period.
Blue bars are complaint records. Amber bars are violation records. The amber line shows VI records as a percentage of complaint records.
Look for years where complaint volume is high but violation records are comparatively low. That is why this dashboard never shows violation records alone.
Each district is shown with complaint records and violation records side by side. The label above the amber bar is the VI-to-complaint percentage.
This separates missing inspection date from missing inspection result. Both matter, but they do not mean the same thing.
For each district: total complaints, complaints missing inspection date, and complaints missing inspection result.
This looks only at complaints marked Closed or Completed, then checks whether the inspection date or result is visible.
Use the district filter to see how the same record questions change by district.
Records ending in -CP.
Records ending in -VI.
Share of closed/completed complaints missing visible inspection result.
These are keyword scans across DESCRIPTION and DESCRIPTION1. They are exploratory signals, not official categories, and a single record can match more than one topic.
Selected date range and district. Closed/completed records are excluded.
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